Procerodes

Procerodes
Procerodes littoralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Maricola
Superfamily:	Procerodoidea Diesing, 1862
Family:	Procerodidae Diesing, 1862
Genus:	Procerodes Girard, 1850
Synonyms
DebeauchampiaBenazzi, 1981

Procerodes is a genus of marine triclads. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Procerodidae and monotypic superfamily Procerodoidea. ^[1]

Ecology

Although it is mainly a marine family, specimens living in freshwater have been reported, mainly from the oceanic islands of the Southern Hemisphere. ^[2]

Species

• Procerodes anatolicus (Benazzi, 1981)
• Procerodes australis Sluys, 1989
• Procerodes dahli Marcus & Marcus, 1959
• Procerodes dohrni Wilhelmi, 1909
• Procerodes lacteus Ijima & Kaburaki, 1916
• Procerodes littoralis (Strøm, 1768)
• Procerodes lobatus (Schmidt, 1862)
• Procerodes pacificus Hyman, 1954
• Procerodes plebeius (Schmidt, 1861)
• Procerodes variabilis (Bohmig, 1902)

References

1. Diesing, 1862 : Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Rhabdocoelen. Sitzungsber Math-Naturwiss Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 45 pp. 191-318.
2. Ball, I. R. 1974. La Faune Terrestre de l'Ile de Saint Hélène: Turbellaria Tricladida. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centrale, in 8. Zool.