Stylochidae

Stylochidae
	Stylochus pilidium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Order:	Polycladida
Suborder:	Acotylea
Family:	Stylochidae

Stylochidae is a family of polyclad flatworms.^[1] It includes the species Stylochus zebra, which usually lives in shells occupied by the hermit crab Pagurus pollicaris, though it can sometimes be found free living on rocks and pilings.^[2]

The family contains the following 6 genera containing 36 accepted species:^[3]

Cryptostylochus
Distylochus
- Distylochus isifer
- Distylochus martae
- Distylochus pusillus
Kataria
- Kataria gloriosa
Leptostylochus
Stylochopsis
- Stylochopsis ellipticus
- Stylochopsis ponticus
Stylochus
- Stylochus alexandrinus
- Stylochus argus
- Stylochus bermudensis
- Stylochus cinereus
- Stylochus conglomeratus
- Stylochus crassus
- Stylochus ellipticus
- Stylochus flevensis
- Stylochus frontalis
- Stylochus limosus
- Stylochus luteus
- Stylochus mediterraneus
- Stylochus neapolitanus
- Stylochus pillidum
- Stylochus plessissii
- Stylochus pygmaeus
- Stylochus teuricus
- Stylochus vesiculatus
- Stylochus zanzibaricus
- Stylochus zebra

References

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[1] "Stylochidae - Encyclopedia of Life".

[2] Keys to marine invertebrates of the Woods Hole region : A manual for the identification of the more common marine invertebrates. 1964.

[3] "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Stylochidae Stimpson, 1857".

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