A collection of Turbellaria polycladida from the Straits of Malacca (Skeat expedition, 1899-1900) / by F.F. Laidlaw.

  • Laidlaw, Frank Fortescue, 1876-1963.
Date:
1903
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Credit: A collection of Turbellaria polycladida from the Straits of Malacca (Skeat expedition, 1899-1900) / by F.F. Laidlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    {From ike Peoceedinos of ttif Zool0&£5al‘'Society of London, 1903,, v ok i.] v« (Published |^ugu&t;6, -19^.] ■ On a Collection of Turbellaria Polyeladida from the Straits of Malacca. (Skeat Expedition, 1899-1900.) By F. F. Laidlaw, B.A. Cantab., Assistant Lecturer and Demon- strator in the Owens College.1 2 (Plate XXIII. & Text-figures 50-56.) The collection described below was made entirely by Mr. Evans on the shores of a small islet called Pulau Bidan, a few miles north of Penang. It proves a most interesting one, and includes, so far as I can discover, only one previously known species, Thysanozoon auropunctatum Coll. As in describing Mr. Gardiner’s collection from the Maldives [4], I have to note the scarcity or absence of the Euryleptidse, represented doubtfully only by a much damaged fragment in Mr. Evans’s series. The only previous record of species from the shores of the Malay Peninsula that I have been able to discover was made by Collingwood, who described and figured the following species from Singapore:— Thysanozoon allmani. Proceros hancockianus. ,, buskii. Sphyngiceps lacteus. Grouping these specimens with those of the Skeat Collection and adding Pseudoceros bedfordii from Singapore, kindly given me by Mr. Lanchester, we get the following list classified according to Lang’s system [6] :— Acotylea. Planoceeidas. * Planocera sp. 1.* Notoplana evansii, sp. n. Eurylepta kelaartii. Elasmodes obtusum. Leptoplana aurantiaca. 1 Communicated by Dr. S. F. Haemee, F.Z.S. 2 For explanation of the Plate, see p. 318. [i]