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Waminoa brickneri Acoel Flatworm

Waminoa brickneriis commonly referred to as Acoel Flatworm. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Acoel flatworms - Waminoa sp. Israel 2019


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lexID:
15332 
AphiaID:
379975 
Scientific:
Waminoa brickneri 
German:
Korallenstrudelwurm 
English:
Acoel Flatworm 
Category:
Flatworms 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Xenacoelomorpha (Phylum) > Not assigned (Class) > Acoela (Order) > Convolutidae (Family) > Waminoa (Genus) > brickneri (Species) 
Initial determination:
Ogunlana, Hooge, Tekle, Benayahu, Barneah & Tyler, 2005 
Occurrence:
Australia, Gulf of Aqaba / Gulf of Eliat, Israel, Red Sea 
Sea depth:
2 - 50 Meter 
Habitats:
On living corals 
Size:
0" - 0" (0,3cm - 0,4cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 78.8 °F (°C - 26°C) 
Food:
Mucus, No reliable information available, Zooxanthellae / Light 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
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Last edit:
2024-04-11 21:54:21 

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Waminoa brickneri Ogunlana, Hooge, Tekle, Benayahu, Barneah & Tyler, 2005

The photographs shows Acoel Flatworms (Waminoa sp.) on a soft coral. Acoel flatworms can reach plague proportions in an aquarium, but the most of the flatworms causing no harm to corals. When in small numbers, they do not appear to harm their host.

Acoel flatworms are primitive animals, they actually lack a body cavity and a gut.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) >Xenacoelomorpha (Phylum) > Acoelomorpha (Subphylum) > Acoela (Order) > Convolutidae (Family) > Waminoa (Genus)

Scientific paper

  1. First Evidence of Maternal Transmission of Algal Endosymbionts at an Oocyte Stage in a Triploblastic Host, with Observations on Reproduction in Waminoa brickneri (Acoelomorpha), Orit Barneah, Itzchak Brickner, Matthew Hooge, Virginia M. Weis and Yehuda Benayahu, 2007

External links

  1. livingoceansfoundation (en). Abgerufen am 05.11.2022.
  2. Waminoa brickneri n. sp. (Acoela: Acoelomorpha) associated with corals in the Red Sea (en). Abgerufen am 11.04.2024.
  3. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 05.11.2022.

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Waminoa brickneri, Israel 2020
Acoel flatworms - Waminoa sp. Israel 2019

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