Biology:Rhynchomesostoma rostratum
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Short description: Species of flatworm
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Rhabdocoela |
| Family: | Typhloplanidae |
| Genus: | Rhynchomesostoma |
| Species: | R. rostratum
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhynchomesostoma rostratum (Müller OF, 1773)
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Rhynchomesostoma rostratum is a species of rhabdocoel flatworms in the family Typhloplanidae.[1]
Description
The animal is 1.5 to 3.5 mm long[2] and transparent. The anterior end is retractable.[3]
Taxonomy
It was described by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 as Fasciola rostrata.[1][4]
Distribution and habitat
The species has been recorded in Europe, India, Kenya, Siberia, and the US.[1]
Ecology and behavior
It preys on oligochaetes, cladocerans, copepods, other microturbellarians, and mosquito larvae and other aquatic insects. It is preyed upon by the flatworm Phaenocora unipunctata.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Rhynchomesostoma". http://turbellaria.umaine.edu/turbellaria/turb3.php?action=1&code=6232.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Young, J. O. (2001). Keys to the freshwater microturbellarians of Britain and Ireland. Ambleside: Freshwater Biology Association.
- ↑ Streble, H. & Krauter, D. (1988). Das Leben im Wassertropfen. Stuttgart: Franckh. pp. 268–269.
- ↑ Müller, Otto Friedrich (1774). "Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Vol. primi pars altera.". Havniae et Lipsiae 4: 65–66. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100435#page/4/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q2537276 entry
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