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
Paraba
gen. n
Etymology
. In Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language),
Paraba
means multicoloured; it alludes to the multicoloured dorsum of the
type
species of the genus. The gender is female.
Diagnosis
.
Geoplaninae
with small-to-medium-sized body,
6–80 mm
in length; body slender, with margins nearly parallel; dorsum and ventral side slightly convex; eyes monolobulated; pharynx cylindrical; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, generally horizontal; penis papilla protrusible, conical; male atrium not folded; ascending portion of ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to female atrium, joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of female atrium; 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
.
Geoplana multicolor
von
Graff, 1899
Species of
Paraba
.
Paraba caapora
(
Froehlich, 1958
)
comb. n.
Paraba cassula
(
E. M. Froehlich, 1955
)
comb. n.
Paraba franciscana
(
Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001
)
*
comb. n.
Paraba gaucha
(
Froehlich, 1959
)
comb. n.
Paraba goettei
(
Schirch, 1929
)
comb. n.
Paraba incognita
(
Riester, 1938
)
comb. n.
Paraba multicolor
(von
Graff, 1899
)
*
comb. n.
Paraba phocaica
(
Marcus, 1951
)
*
comb. n.
Paraba piriana
(
Almeida & Carbayo, 2012
)
comb. n.
(in
Almeida
et al.
, 2012
)
Paraba tingauna
(
Kishimoto & Carbayo, 2012
)
comb. n.
(in
Almeida
et al.
, 2012
)
Paraba preta
(
Riester, 1938
)
comb. n.
Paraba rubidolineata
(
Baptista & Leal-Zanchet, 2005
)
* comb. n.
Paraba suva
(
Froehlich, 1959
)
comb. n.
Paraba tapira
(
Froehlich, 1958
)
comb. n.