Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: proposal of taxonomic actions
Author
Fernando Carbayo
Author
Marta Álvarez-Presas
Author
Cĺaudia T. Olivares
Author
Fernando P. L. Marques
Author
Eud Óxia M. Froehlich
Author
Marta Riutort
text
Zoologica Scripta
2013
42
508
528
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.399812
72c98004-b882-4508-a00c-c1e3ad27faaa
399812
C9E06103-0179-4739-AF18-A159097A3902
Genus
Obama
gen. n
Etymology
. The name
Obama
is a composition of the Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language) words
oba
(meaning leaf) and
ma
(animal). It alludes to the characteristically flattened, leaf-shaped body of the species of the genus. The gender is female.
Diagnosis
.
Geoplaninae
with medium-sized to large body,
30–300 mm
in length; body broad, flattened, leafshaped; eyes mono- and trilobulated, dorsal; part of the sensory pits arranged in 2–4 rows on each side of the body; pharynx cylindrical or bell-shaped; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, short, curved and anteriorly branched; penis papilla protrusible, conical, horizontal, occupying entire male atrium, with dorsal insertion posterior to the ventral, sometimes laterally displaced; male atrium, not folded, generally not separated from the female one; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the female atrium and joining each other above it; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal or posterior region of the female atrium; female atrium ample, long or funnelshaped.
Distribution
. States of Amaṕa, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, Parańa, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, in
Brazil
.
Type
species
.
Geoplana fryi
von
Graff, 1899
Species of
Obama
.
Obama apeva
(
Froehlich, 1959
)
comb. n.
Obama applanata
(von
Graff, 1899
)
comb. n.
Obama argus
(von
Graff, 1899
)
comb. n.
Obama assu
(
Froehlich, 1959
)
comb. n.
Obama baptistae
(
Leal-Zanchet & Oliveira, 2012
)
comb. n.
Obama braunsi
(von
Graff, 1899
)
comb. n.
Obama burmeisteri
(
Schultze & Müller, 1857
)
*
comb. n
.
Obama carbayoi
(
Oliveira & Leal-Zanchet, 2012
)
comb. n.
Obama carinata (
Riester, 1938
)
*
comb. n.
Obama carrierei
(von
Graff, 1897
)
comb. n.
Obama catharina
(
Hyman, 1957
)
comb. n.
Obama dictyotona
(
Riester, 1938
)
comb. n.
Obama divae
(
Marcus, 1951
)
comb. n.
Obama eudoxiae
(
Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990
)
comb. n.
Obama eudoximariae
(
Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990
)
comb. n.
Obama evelinae
(
Marcus, 1951
)
comb. n.
Obama ferussaci
(von
Graff, 1897
)
comb. n.
Obama ficki
(
Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2012
)
comb. n.
(in
Amaral
et al.
, 2012
)
Obama fryi
(von
Graff, 1899
)
comb. n.
Obama glieschi
(
Froehlich, 1959
)
comb. n.
Obama itatiayana
(
Schirch, 1929
)
comb. n.
Obama josefi
(
Carbayo & Leal-Zanchet, 2001
)
*
Obama ladislavii
(von
Graff, 1899
)
*
comb. n.
Obama ladislavii
(sensu
Froehlich, 1959
)
*
comb. n.
Obama livia
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1955
)
comb. n.
Obama marmorata
(
Schultze & Müller, 1857
)
comb. n.
Obama metzi
(von
Graff, 1899
)
comb. n.
Obama poca
(
Froehlich, 1958
)
comb. n.
Obama polyophthalma
(von
Graff, 1899
)
comb. n.
Obama riesteri
(
Froehlich, 1955
)
comb. n.
Obama rufiventris
(
Schultze & Müller, 1857
)
comb. n.
Obama ruiva
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1972
)
comb. n.
Obama schubarti
(
Froehlich, 1958
)
comb. n.
Obama
sp. 6
*
Obama trigueira
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1955
)
comb. n.