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IN 1930–31 Steinböck3 described Nemertoderma bathycola, a peculiar new turbellarian from deep bottoms near Greenland. He considered the species to be rather primitive. A detailed investigation of a closely related if not identical form from the Scandinavian West Coast was published a few years later by Westblad7. In 1949 Westblad described Meara stichopi which is parasitic in echinoderms8. These forms are characterized mainly by a statocyst carrying two statoliths (occasionally one, three or four1; Fig. 4), a neuropilem and very primitive genital apparatus.
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STERRER, W. New Polylithophorous Marine Turbellaria. Nature 210, 436 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210436a0
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