Hallez, 1893

Description:
Body 9-10 mm long and 6-7 mm wide. Dorsal surface yellowish-orange, without papillae or tubercles, but marked with a number of regularly distributed white spots. Marginal tentacles are small, but distinct. Numerous eyes are crowded into two, quadrilateral, elongate cerebral groups merging with tentacular eyes (C. maculatus-eyes). The pharynx is short; intestinal trunk with seven pairs of lateral branches.
The male copulatory complex lies partly beneath and partly behind the pharynx; the penis-papilla is large and pyriform. The uterine canals bear several pairs of vesicles.

Habitat:
In the Laminaria zone and on compound ascidians in depths to 60 m.

Distribution:
Pas-de-Calais.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Turbellaria
Order Polycladida
Suborder Cotylea
Family Euryleptidae
Genus Cycloporus
Species Cycloporus maculatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cycloporus maculatus Hallez, 1893

Prudhoe, S., 1982. British Polyclad Turbellarians. Synopses of the British Fauna (N.S.), 26.

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