The discovery of new Chilean taxa revolutionizes the systematics of Geoplaninae Neotropical land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida)
Author
Almeida, Ana Laura
Author
Álvarez-Presas, Marta
Author
Carbayo, Fernando
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2023
2022-11-07
197
4
837
898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072
journal article
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072
0024-4082
010109AB-79F5-4E6D-909B-08BB1803E589
PICHIDAMAS
BULNES
ET AL.
, 2018
Type
species:
Pichidamas piru
Bulnes
et al.
, 2018
, designated by Bulnes
et al.
, (2018).
Neae diagnosis:
Sarcoplanini
with a small- to mediumsized body, subcylindrical, slender with nearly parallel margins and anterior extremity rounded. Eyes monolobulate, distributed along the body margins. Cephalic retractor muscle present, derived from ventral longitudinal cutaneous musculature. Five parenchymal muscle layers, the ventralmost layer consisting of decussate fibres and located to the inside of the peripheral nerve plexus. Distal portion of male atrium with an adenodactyl. Penis eversible. Ovovitelline ducts ventral, opening to the common ovovitelline duct from posteroventral.
Distribution:
Regions
Maule
and
Los Lagos
,
Chile
.
PICHIDAMAS GNYTHOS
ALMEIDA
&
CARBAYO