title: Reports on the free-living platyhelminthes from Australia: typhloplanoida, with the description of three new taxa.
abstract: Five typhloplanoids from the Australian East Coast are reported, three of them new to science. Two taxa are members of Promesostomidae: Vauclusia conica n.g. n.sp., characterised by a cone-shaped stylet, the presence of a female bursa and a very long, partially-swollen female duct; Brinkmanniella australiensis n.sp. has a funnel-shaped stylet with a smooth distal tip. Pilamonila bimascula n.g. n.sp. is a representative of the Solenopharyngidae, characterised by a stylet within a cirrus. The known species found are Ceratopera axi and Ptychopera scutulifer.
authors.affiliation: Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Dept. SBG, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Biodiversity, Phylogeny and Population Studies, Diepenbeek, Belgium. wim.willems@luc.ac.be
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Artois
authors.forename: Wouter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Vermin
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Backeljau
authors.forename: Ernest
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schockaert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D001837:Body Weights and Measures; D013045:Species Specificity; D014419:Turbellaria / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*