Redescription of Eurylepta leoparda Freeman, 1933 (Turbellaria: Polycladida), a predator of the ascidian Corella willmeriana Herdman, 1898

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The morphology of this cotylean flatworm is similar to Freeman's and Hyman's descriptions of their two specimens, but the body shape, patterns of pigmentation, and bands of the marginal tentacles are described and portrayed photographically. The reproductive systems include clustered spermiducal vesicles, which are lateral to the main gut, and uterine vesicles, which are located in tandem fashion at the junctions of the main gut branches. Serial sections confirm the arrangement of these vesicles, the copulatory apparatus, and a prostatic vesicle of the free type. Eurylepta leoparda lays eggs readily in the laboratory, which hatch at 11 °C in 2 weeks to become Müller's larvae.

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