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 zariae Kolasa & Mead, 1981

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	Kolasa, J.; Mead, A. P. (1981). A new species of freshwater turbellarian from Africa, predatory on mosquitoes: Mesostoma zariae n. sp. (Typhloplanoida). Hydrobiologia, 84:19-22
additional 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) (2006-2024). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Mesostoma zariae Kolasa & Mead, 1981. 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:481127

Dr. Carolina Noreña Janssen. Mesostoma zariae Kolasa & Mead, 1981. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/5d457d93-2790-41b4-bc9e-6207edd95ed9