Species Diversity 24: 1–6 Published online 25 January 2019 DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.24.1 A New Species of Phaenoplana (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Ogasawara Islands Yuki Oya1,3 and Hiroshi Kajihara2 1 Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan E-mail:
[email protected] 2 Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan 3 Corresponding author (Received 26 July 2018; Accepted 8 November 2018) http://zoobank.org/8282F788-F3C7-4918-99D3-6C672BA8DE58 We describe a new species of polyclad flatworm, Phaenoplana kopepe sp. nov., from Chichijima island in the Ogas- awara Islands, Japan. This is the first report of Phaenoplana from Japan. Phaenoplana kopepe sp. nov. is characterized by i) a vagina that curves anteriorly, ii) gonopores well-separated from each other, and iii) a Lang’s duct that is shorter than the vagina. We provide a partial sequence (610 bp) from the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene as a DNA bar- code for the species. Key Words: Acotylea, COI, cox1, DNA barcoding, marine flatworm, Pacific, Stylochoplanidae. cus, 1952 in the reproductive organs and its epithelial ultra- Introduction structure. The morphological heterogeneity and the conflict in taxonomic opinions between Faubel (1983) and Prudhoe The polyclad flatworm genus Phaenoplana Faubel, 1983, (1985) indicate that Phaenoplana requires a thorough revi- belonging to Stylochoplanidae, is distinguished from other sion. However, such a taxonomic revision should involve ex- stylochoplanid genera by possessing a penis rod and a Lang’s tensive molecular phylogeny of acotyleans, which is beyond vesicle. Faubel (1983) assigned five species to Phaenoplana; the scope of this paper.