Stylochidae

Stylochidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Turbellaria
Order:	Polycladida
Suborder:	Acotylea
Family:	Stylochidae

Stylochidae is a family of Turbellarian 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
- Cryptostylochus coseirensis
- Cryptostylochus hullensis
- Cryptostylochus koreensis
Distylochus
- Distylochus isifer
- Distylochus martae
- Distylochus pusillus
Kataria
- Kataria gloriosa
Leptostylochus
- Leptostylochus capensis
- Leptostylochus elongatus
- Leptostylochus gracilis
- Leptostylochus novacambrensis
- Leptostylochus pacificus
- Leptostylochus palombii
- Leptostylochus polysorus
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

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