ORDER : POLYCLADIDA
Sub order : ACOTYLEA
Super family : Euryleptoidea
Family : Euryleptidae

Euryleptidae Lang, 1884

- Euryleptoidea often strikingly coloured with tentacles and gonopores separate.

- Two subfamilies and 13 genus are known. The subfamilies and genera are separated by details of the reproductive structures, characters only seen by microscopic examination of the internal anatomy

Maritigrella     Newman & Cannon, 2000

Ethymology :
      - Mari = sea, tigrella = tiger, for the pattern of transverse stripes

Ventral characteristics :
      - Both the mouth and the small tubular pharynx are anterior
      - The sucker is located in the mid-body and is prominent

Dorsal characteristics :
      - These flatworms have an elongate to oval body with a highly ruffled margin
      - The marginal tentacles are long and held erect, but are not pointed
      - Cerebral eyes are present in two elongated clusters

Feeding behavior :
      - These worms feed exclusively on solitary and colonial ascidians by extracting individual zooids with their tubular pharynx

Publications :

Faubel, (1984) : The Polycladida, Turbellaria. Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part II. The Cotylea . Mitteilungen des hamburgischen zoologischen Museums und Instituts 80. 189–259.
    Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112