Geoplaninae

Geoplaninae is a subfamily of land planarians endemic to the Neotropical region.[2]

Geoplaninae
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Rhabditophora
Order:
Tricladida
Family:
Geoplanidae
Subfamily:
Geoplaninae[1]
Genera

see text

Description

The subfamily Geoplaninae was initially defined by Ogren and Kawakatsu (1990)[3] for land planarians which have a broad creeping sole, mouth in the second half of the body, dorsal testes, subepithelial longitudinal musculature well developed and parenchymal longitudinal musculature absent or not well developed. None of these characters is exclusive, however, and cannot be considered a synapomorphy of the group. Nevertheless, phylogenetic studies have revealed that Geoplaninae is indeed a monophyletic group.[1][4][5]

Genera

Currently the land planarians in the subfamily Geoplaninae are grouped in 28 genera:[2]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Carbayo, F.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Olivares, C. U. T.; Marques, F. P. L.; Froehlich, E. X. M.; Riutort, M. (2013). "Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: Proposal of taxonomic actions". Zoologica Scripta. 42 (5): 508. doi:10.1111/zsc.12019.
  3. Ogren, R. E. and Kawakatsu, M. (1990). Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part I: Geoplaninae. Bulletin of Fujis Women's College. 29: 79-166.
  4. Álvarez-Presas, M.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2008). "Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47 (2): 555–568. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032. PMID 18359250.
  5. Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Lázaro, E.; Solà, E.; Paps, J. (2012). "Evolutionary history of the Tricladida and the Platyhelminthes: An up-to-date phylogenetic and systematic account". The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 56 (1–3): 5–17. doi:10.1387/ijdb.113441mr. PMID 22450992.
  6. Leal-Zanchet, Ana M.; Marques, Alessandro Damasceno (2018). "Coming out in a harsh environment: a new genus and species for a land flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) occurring in a ferruginous cave from the Brazilian savanna". PeerJ. 6: e6007. doi:10.7717/peerj.6007. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6284438. PMID 30533305.
  7. Negrete, Lisandro; Álvarez‐Presas, Marta; Riutort, Marta; Brusa, Francisco (2020). "Integrative taxonomy of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from the Andean‐Patagonian Forests from Argentina and Chile, with the erection of two new genera". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. doi:10.1111/jzs.12444. ISSN 0947-5745.
  8. Bulnes, Verónica N.; Grau, José H.; Carbayo, Fernando (2018). "A new Chilean genus and species of land planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida, Geoplaninae) with cephalic retractor muscle and adenodactyl". Journal of Natural History. 52 (39–40): 2553–2566. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1538468. ISSN 0022-2933.
  9. Negrete, Lisandro; Amaral, Silvana Vargas do; Ribeiro, Giovana Gamino; Wolmann Gonçalves, Juliana; Valiati, Victor Hugo; Damborenea, Cristina; Brusa, Francisco; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2019). "Far away, so close! Integrative taxonomy reveals a new genus and species of land flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from southern South America". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz131. ISSN 0024-4082.
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