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
TIMYMA
E.M.
FROEHLICH, 1978
Type
species:
Timyma juliae
E.M.
Froehlich, 1978
, designated by E. M.
Froehlich (1978)
.
Diagnosis:
Timymini with mouth approximately in midbody. Without parenchymatic longitudinal muscle. Pharyngeal pouch extends posteriorly beyond copulatory apparatus. Outer pharyngeal musculature tripartite, with an outer longitudinal muscle layer, a midcircular and an inner longitudinal muscle layer. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Penis papilla absent. Distal section of male atrium narrowed. Ovovitelline ducts emerge from the ventral aspect of ovaries and subsequently ascend laterally to the female atrium to join dorsally to it. Female genital canal dilated to form an ootype projected from the dorsoposterior aspect of the female atrium. Without adhesive musculoglandular organs. Copulatory apparatus without adenodactyls (as re-diagnosed by
Almeida
et al.
, 2021
).
Distribution:
Regions
Coquimbo
and
Valparaiso
,
Chile
.