Procerodidae

Procerodidae
	Procerodes littoralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Maricola
Family:	Procerodidae; Diesing, 1862
Genera[1]
	Procerodes; Micropharynx (Incertae sedis); Tiddles evelinae (Incertae sedis);

Procerodidae is a family of marine triclads.[2]

Ecology

Although it is mainly a marine family, specimens living in freshwater have been reported, mainly from oceanic islands of the Southern Hemisphere.[3]

Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Riutort, M.; Baguñà, J. (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History. 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669.
Diesing, 1862 : Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Rhabdocoelen. Sitzungsber Math-Naturwiss Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 45 pp. 191-318.
Ball, I. R. 1974. La Faune Terrestre de l'Ile de Saint Hélène: Turbellaria Tricladida. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centrale, in 8. Zool.

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