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
Barreirana
Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990
Emended diagnosis
.
Geoplaninae
with small-sized body,
8–22 mm
in length, body subcylindrical, slender with nearly parallel margins; dorsal colour pattern with transverse bands; eyes monolobulated, distributed on nearly all dorsum; pharynx cylindrical; prostatic vesicle intrabulbar, narrow; penis papilla protrusible, large conical, nearly horizontal; male atrium not folded; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to the female atrium, joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorsoanteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of the female atrium; female atrium small, funnel-shaped.
Distribution
. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, in
Brazil
.
Type
species
.
Geoplana barreirana
Riester, 1938
; designated by
Ogren & Kawakatsu (1990)
Species of
Barreirana
.
Barreirana barreirana
(
Riester, 1938
)
comb. n.
Barreirana zebroides
(
Riester, 1938
)
comb. n.