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Pseudoceros
Sign in to savePseudoceros is a genus of the flatworms Platyhelminthes.
Species
ニセツノヒラムシ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassTurbellaria
- OrderPolycladida
- FamilyPseudocerotidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded5,652
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 234
- With media
- 44
- Family
- Pseudocerotidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, YPM, NHMUK, QM
- Recorded in
- French Polynesia, United States, Philippines, Seychelles, Mexico, New Zealand, Palau, South Africa
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Pseudoceros is a genus of the flatworms Platyhelminthes.
== Description == Easily recognized features within the genus include a ruffled pharynx, branched intestines, and tentacles on the leading edge. The tentacles may act as chemoreceptors and may also have primitive eyes, simple light-sensitive cells, on them. The Polyclad worms are acoelomates and bilaterally symmetrical.
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