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
Cratera
gen. n
Etymology
. The name
Cratera
is derived from the Latin word
crater.
It alludes to the cavity in the penis papilla resembling the depression in the mouth of a volcano. The gender is female.
Diagnosis
.
Geoplaninae
with medium-sized body,
30–70 in
length; body broad, flattened, slightly leaf-shaped; eyes monolobulated; pharynx cylindrical to bell-shaped; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar; penis papilla protrusible, having distally a cavity continued from the ejaculatory duct; male atrium not folded, generally not separated from the female one; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts anterior or 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 funnel-shaped.
Distribution
. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, south- east
Brazil
.
Type
species
.
Geoplana pseudovaginuloides
Riester, 1938
Species of
Cratera
.
Cratera crioula
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1955b
)
*
comb. n.
Cratera joia
(
Froehlich, 1956b
)
comb. n.
Cratera pseudovaginuloides
(
Riester, 1938
)
*
comb. n.
Cratera
sp. 1
*
Cratera
sp. 4
*
Cratera
sp. 5
*
Cratera tamoia
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1955b
)
*
comb. n.
Cratera yara
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1955b
)
comb. n.