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
Imbira
,
gen. n
Etymology
. In Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language),
Imbira
is a strip of bark peeled off from certain trees; it alludes to the body shape of the species of the genus. The gender is female.
Diagnosis
.
Geoplaninae
with large-sized body,
90– 140 mm
in length, body slender, flattened, with margins parallel; eyes monolobulated, marginally arranged along the body; parenchymatic muscle layers of longitudinal fibres, dorsally and ventrally to the intestine, in addition to the three common parenchymatic muscle layers; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, long-branched; penis papilla eversible; male atrium folded; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to the female atrium and joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of the female atrium; female atrium rounded, clothed with an epithelium with multilayered aspect.
Distribution
. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, Parańa, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in
Brazil
.
Type
species
.
Notogynaphallia guaiana
Leal-Zanchet &
Carbayo, 2001
Species of
Imbira
.
Imbira guaiana
(Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001)
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