Gusana (genus)
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Genus: | Gusana Froehlich, 1978 |
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Geoplana cruciata von Graff, 1899 |
Gusana is a genus of land planarians from Chile.
Description
Gusana was defined as land planarians with a broad, leaf-like body that tapers very abruptly anteriorly, giving it a triangular anterior end. The cutaneous musculature, both ventrally and dorsally, is partially sunk into the mesenchyma. The sensory border forms a thick edge around the ventral margin of the anterior end and the sensory pits are internally branched, differently from what occurs in most Neotropical land planarians. The copulatory apparatus has a small intra-antral penis papilla and the female canal enters the genital antrum ventrally.[1]
Species
The genus Gusana currently includes three species:
- Gusana cruciata (von Graff, 1899)
- Gusana lata (von Graff, 1899)
- Gusana platei (von Graff, 1899)
References
- Ogren, Robert E.; Kawakatsu, Masaharu (1990). "Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part I: Geoplaninae". The Bulletin of Fuji Women's College Series 2. 28: 79–166.
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