An annotated checklist of terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) from Mexico, with new records of invasive species from a citizen science platform and a new nomen dubium
Author
Luna, Manuel De
0000-0002-0746-0507
Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Ciudad Universitaria, P. C. 66451, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leoon, Mexico scolopendra 94 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0746 - 0507
scolopendra94@gmail.com
Author
Boll, Piter Kehoma
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Avenida Unisinos, 950, 93022 - 750, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-06-06
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4
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.3
1175-5326
8009087
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Bipalium kewense
Moseley, 1878
Figs. 1, 2
.
Winsor (1983
: figs. 1–11;
MEXICO
: State Unspecified).
Ogren & Kawakatsu (1998: 442
;
MEXICO
:
Tamaulipas
).
Kawakatsu
et al
. (2002: 6–7
;
MEXICO
:
Queretaro
,
San Luis Potosi
).
de Luna
et al
. (2022: 925–935
; figs. 1B, 2–3, 4;
MEXICO
:
Baja California
,
Chiapas
,
Ciudad de Mexico
,
Coahuila
,
Colima
,
Durango, Estado de Mexico, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla
,
Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz
, and
Zacatecas
).
External diagnosis
(
de Luna
et al
. 2022
). An elongate species, up to
80 cm
. Head laterally expanded into a semilunate head plate with recurved lappets. Dorsal ground color light brown; head with the same color as the dorsum or slightly darker. Dorsum with five longitudinal black to dark-gray or dark-brown stripes: one median, a lateral pair, and a marginal pair. Median stripe black, narrow, and well-marked; it starts behind the neck and broadens over the pharyngeal area. Lateral stripes lighter, broader, and with diffuse margins. Marginal stripes narrow, dark, and well-marked. Lateral and marginal stripes of each side unite behind the neck to form an incomplete collar. Ventral surface light-ochre, with white creeping sole distinct, ridged, and delineated by paired, narrow, diffuse grayish, longitudinal stripes which extend from the ventral portion of the collar to the posterior end; collar interrupted on each side of creeping sole.
Given its semilunate head plate,
Bipalium kewense
can only be confused with
Bipalium vagum
. This species is much larger than
Bipalium vagum
and lacks the complete black collar in the neck region that
Bipalium vagum
has.
Remarks
. Previously,
de Luna
et al
. (2022)
overlooked the work of
Ogren & Kawakatsu (1998)
which has a record for
Tamaulipas
as well as the work of
Kawakatsu
et al
. (2002)
which has records for
Queretaro
and
San Luis Potosi
.