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
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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
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Zootaxa
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2023-06-06
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.3
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Diporodemus yucatani
Hyman, 1938
Fig. 10
.
FIGURE 10.
Diporodemus yucatani
.
Redrawn from
Hyman (1938)
, dorsal aspect of specimen. Scales not available.
Hyman (1938
;
MEXICO
:
Yucatan
).
Ogren
et al
. (1997: 74
, 93; catalog).
Ogren & Kawakatsu (1998: 445
; error, see below).
Kawakatsu
et al
. (2000: 86
; catalog).
Kawakatsu
et al
. (2003: 104
; catalog).
External diagnosis
(
Hyman 1938
). Body elongated, salty-black, nearly cylindrical, and blunt at both ends. The anterior end bears a pair of eyes near the tip. Fixed specimens seem to show a reticulated pattern.
The absence of a head plate differentiates it from both species of
Bipalium
and the paired eyes differ from all recorded
Caenoplanini
as well as
Geoplana multipunctata
. It differs from
Rhynchodemus sylvaticus
and both species of
Dolichoplana
in that it lacks any kind of stripes, as well as in the size, as this species is very small (around
12 mm
).
Remarks
.
Ogren & Kawakatsu (1998)
mention this species for
Costa Rica
and
Diporodemus plenus
Hyman, 1941
for
Mexico
, however, these are errors, as
Diporodemus yucatani
was described from
Yucatan
,
Mexico
, and
Diporodemus plenus
was described from
Panama
(
Hyman 1938
,
1941
;
Glasgow 2013
). This is the only terrestrial flatworm whose
type
locality is officially in
Mexico
: Sabacha Cave, municipality of Tekax, state of
Yucatan
; it is also likely that it is the only native species described so far.