Cratera aureomaculata

Cratera aureomaculata
	Cratera aureomaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Rhabditophora
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Continenticola
Family:	Geoplanidae
Subfamily:	Geoplaninae
Genus:	Cratera
Species:	C. aureomaculata
Binomial name
	Cratera aureomaculata; Rossi & Leal-Zanchet, 2017

Cratera aureomaculata is a species of land planarian from Brazil.

Description

Cratera aureomaculata is a medium-sized land planarian with an elongate body with parallel margins and slightly convex dorsal surface. It reaches about 50 mm (2.0 in) in length. The dorsum has a yellow background that is covered by brown pigmentation in the anterior region. There are blackish pigmentation forming irregular flecks over the dorsal surface, being larger laterally and becoming more concentrates towards the posterior tip. The venter is light grey with yellowish margins, becoming brownish with darker margins in the anterior region.[1]

The several eyes of C. aureomaculata are distributed marginally in the first millimeters of the body and posteriorly become dorsal, occupying about one third of the body width on each side and becoming less numerous towards the anterior tip.[1]

Etymology

The specific epithet aureomaculata comes from Latin aureus, golden + maculata, spotted, flecked, thus meaning "golden flecked" and refers to the yellowish background color covered by irregular black flecks.[1]

Distribution

Cratera aureomaculata is known only from the Três Barras National Forest, Santa Catarina, Brazil.[1]

References

Rossi, Ilana; Leal-Zanchet, Ana (2017). "Three new species of Cratera Carbayo et al., 2013 from Araucaria forests with a key to species of the genus (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola)". ZooKeys. 643: 1–32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.11093. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5242264.

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[Rossi2017-1] Rossi, Ilana; Leal-Zanchet, Ana (2017). "Three new species of Cratera Carbayo et al., 2013 from Araucaria forests with a key to species of the genus (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola)". ZooKeys. 643: 1–32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.11093. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5242264.