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 maculatum Hofsten, 1917

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

Literature

original description	Hofsten, N. von. (1917). Turbellarien der nordschwedischen Hochgebirge. Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lapland. 4(6): 697–742.
additional source	Ruebush, T. K. (1939). Report on the Rhabdocoele Turbellaria. Collected by the Yale north India expedition. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 126: 49-67.
status source	Ferguson F.F., Hayes W.J. jr. (1941). A synopsis of the genus Mesostoma Ehrenberg 1835. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 57(1): 1–52.
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 maculatum Hofsten, 1917. 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:481095

Dr. Carolina Noreña Janssen. Mesostoma maculatum Hofsten, 1917. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/10922a00-b527-479d-90be-09cf6d6edcca