Marine Species Traits - Pseudoceros velutinus (Blanchard, 1847) Lang, 1884

Turbellarians taxon details

Pseudoceros velutinus (Blanchard, 1847) Lang, 1884

AphiaID

142845 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:142845)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pseudoceros Lang, 1884

Original name

Proceros velutinus Blanchard, 1847

Synonymised names

Eurylepta velutina (Blanchard, 1847) · unaccepted

Proceros velutinus Blanchard, 1847 · unaccepted

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Variety Pseudoceros velutinus var. violaceous (Schmarda, 1859) accepted as Pseudoceros perviolaceus (Schmarda, 1859)
Subspecies Pseudoceros velutinus violaceus (Schmarda, 1859) accepted as Pseudoceros perviolaceus (Schmarda, 1859)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Pseudoceros velutinus (Blanchard, 1847) Lang, 1884. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=142845 on 2025-05-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Faubel, Anno

2010-06-29 05:44:17Z

changed

Tyler, Seth

2025-02-19 12:46:47Z

changed

Artois, Tom

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basis of record Faubel, A.; Noreña, C. (2001). Turbellaria, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 123-136 (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Cuadrado, D.; Moro, L.; Noreña, C. (2017). The Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) of the Canary Islands. New genus, species and records. Zootaxa. 4312(1): 38-68., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4312.1.2 [details]

new combination reference Lang, A. (1884). Die Polycladen (Seeplanarien) des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte. Eine Monographie. Fauna Flora Golfes Neapel. W. Engelmann, Leipzig. Fauna Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte. Verlag von Wilhellm Engelmann. Leipzig. I–XI, 1–688. Separate atlas with 39 plates. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Catalan	planària negra	[details]
Dutch	zwarte platworm	[details]
English	black flatworm	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Eurylepta velutina (Blanchard, 1847))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pseudoceros velutinus)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record)