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
MYOPLANINI
ALMEIDA & CARBAYO
TRIB. NOV.
Zoobank registration:
urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act:
92DB3E7F-3F9C-47FE-B68A-83FDADA3A19A
Diagnosis:
Geoplaninae with the ventral peripheral nervous plexus divided into two plexuses. With a transneural parenchymal muscle, this consisting of diagonal fibres. Inner pharyngeal musculature consisting of four muscle layers.
Type
genus:
Myoplana
Almeida & Carbayo
gen. nov.
Myoplanini
comprises only the genus
Myoplana
.
Etymology:
The name of the tribe is based on the name of its
type
genus.
Distribution:
Región de la Araucanía
,
Chile
.