Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Order Rhabdocoela > Suborder Dalytyphloplanida > Infraorder Neotyphloplanida > Parvorder Limnotyphloplanida > Family Typhloplanidae > Subfamily Mesostominae > Genus Mesostoma

Mesostoma lingua (Abildgaard, 1789) Schmidt, 1848

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesostoma*	Dugès, 1830	accepted genus name
*Derostoma*	Dugès, 1828	synonym
*Mesostomum*		synonym
*Schizostomum*	Schmidt, 1848	synonym
*Turbella*	Ehrenberg, 1831	synonym

Species group names

*Planaria lingua*	Abildgaard, 1789	objective synonym

Literature

additional source	Rogozin, A.G. (1992). Topographical anatomy of the protonephridial vessel system in Rhabdocoela (Turbellaria). 2. Typhloplanidae (Opistominae, Typhloplaninae, Mesostominae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 71(3): 23–32.
new combination reference	Schmidt, O. (1848). Die rhabdocoelen Strudelwürmer (Turbellaria Rhabdocoela) des süssen Wassers. Friedrich Mauke, Jena. 65 p. + 6 plates.
taxonomy source	Noreña Janssen, C.; Faubel, A. (1992). Revision of the Subfamily Mesostominae, Rhabdocoela, Platyhelminthes. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 89: 7–47.

Genbank

Citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Mesostoma lingua (Abildgaard, 1789) Schmidt, 1848. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:481092

Dr. Carolina Noreña Janssen. Mesostoma lingua (Abildgaard, 1789) Schmidt, 1848. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ce61b40e-d1e2-4d1d-858d-a873e55cf5a5