New records of free-living microturbellarians from the Chillón River, Peru

Authors

Jhoe Reyes, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida y de la Salud, Universidad Científica Del Sur, Lima, Perú
Ruperto Severino, Laboratorio de Zoología de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
Francisco Brusa, División Zoología Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales Y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Abstract

Microturbellarians are all mostly small free-living Platyhelminthes that do not belong to either the Polycladida or Tricladida order. This group includes species of the clades Catenulida and Rhabditophora. Species of microturbellarians are known to live in marine and continental waters such as rivers, where they are diverse and abundant. However, there are few records of microturbellarians in most of the rivers of the Pacific slope of Peru. Here, we report eight species of microturbellarians from the Chillón River, in the central region of Peru. Of the total species recorded, five (Gieysztoria cuspidata, G. bellis, Myostenostomum vanderlandi, Stenostomum tuberculosum and S. saliens) represent the first reports on the Pacific slope of the Neotropical region in Peru, thereby increasing the diversity of microturbellarians in this country.

Recommended Citation

Reyes, Jhoe; Severino, Ruperto; and Brusa, Francisco (2022) "New records of free-living microturbellarians from the Chillón River, Peru," Neotropical Biodiversity Journal: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 14.
Available at: https://ikiam.researchcommons.org/neotropical-diversity/vol8/iss1/14