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
GUSANINI
ALMEIDA & CARBAYO
TRIB. NOV.
Zoobank registration:
urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act:
9E0939FB-0E21-4209-B514-A52634BD1ED0
Type
genus:
Gusana
E.M.
Froehlich, 1978
.
Diagnosis:
Geoplaninae with a broad and foliaceus body, tapering abruptly to the anterior tip. Anterior tip triangular. Dorsal and ventral longitudinal cutaneous muscle partly sunken into the parenchyma. Sensory pits as a simple invagination or obliquely elongated and internally branched.
Gusanini
comprise only the genus
Gusana
.
Etymology:
The name of the tribe is based on the name of its
type
genus.
Distribution:
Regions
Biobío
and La
Araucanía
(
Chile
).