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Stocchino &amp; Sluys
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD5FFE44487F245FE5AF9B4" bold="true" box="[151,390,1537,1562]" pageId="1" pageNumber="44">Material examined.</emphasis>
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V.Pl. 7108.1, one set of sagittal sections on 15 slides, rivulet along a mountain stream (station 2), Hogsback State Forest (32°36390”S, 26°57920”E), Amatola Mountains, Eastern Cape Province,
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<date id="FFE21014FFD5FFE445F7F20DFDB8F9CF" box="[487,612,1609,1633]" pageId="1" pageNumber="44" value="2006-04">April 2006</date>
, coll. R. Manconi.
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V.Pl. 7108.2, ibid., sagittal sections on 13 slides;
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V.Pl. 7108.3, ibid., sagittal sections on 13 slides;
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V.Pl. 7108.4, ibid., sagittal sections on 10 slides;
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V.Pl. 7108.5, ibid., sagittal sections on 13 slides;
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Pla 5.1, ibid., sagittal sections on 19 slides,
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Pla 5.2, ibid., transverse sections on 31 slides,
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Pla 5.3 ibid., sagittal sections on 24 slides.
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Other material:
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V.Pl. 7109.1, sagittal sections on 12 slides,
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V.Pl. 7109.2, sagittal sections on 12 slides,
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V.Pl. 7109.3, sagittal sections on 54 slides,
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V.Pl. 7109.4, horizontal sections on 25 slides
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Pla 5.4 sagittal sections on 49 slides,
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Pla 5.5 sagittal sections on 55 slides,
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Pla 5.6 sagittal sections on 53 slides,
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Pla 5.7 transverse sections on 65 slides, main mountain stream (station 1), Hogsback State Forest, Amatola Mountains, Eastern Cape Province,
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<date id="FFE21014FFD5FFE4473FF3C9FC70F80B" box="[815,940,1933,1957]" pageId="1" pageNumber="44" value="2006-04">April 2006</date>
, coll. R. Manconi.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD5FFE444D7F3F6FE92F864" bold="true" box="[199,334,1970,1994]" pageId="1" pageNumber="44">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet refers to the Afromontane forest in
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.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD6FFE744D7F4D3FEF6FF1E" bold="true" box="[199,298,151,176]" pageId="2" pageNumber="45">Habitat.</emphasis>
Planarians were found in a main stream (station 1) and a rivulet (station 2) along the southernmost patches of the Afromontane forest in the Amatola Mountains of
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). The animals were collected from under boulders and pebbles in shallow, clear, running water (
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maximum depth), at an altitude
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asl. In the Amatola forest rain falls throughout the year, with maxima in early and late summer, and with maximum and minimum air temperatures ranging from 19.7 to 8.9°C, respectively.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD6FFE744D7F50FFDD8FECA" bold="true" box="[199,516,331,356]" pageId="2" pageNumber="45">Geographical distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from the
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locality.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD6FFE74487F35AFED0F89A" bold="true" box="[151,268,1822,1845]" pageId="2" pageNumber="45">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
. Geographic distribution of all species of the genus
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recorded from the African continent.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD6FFE744D7F318FE9DF8DB" bold="true" box="[199,321,1884,1909]" pageId="2" pageNumber="45">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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is characterized by the presence of the following features: central course of the ejaculatory duct; terminal opening of the ejaculatory duct; elongated seminal vesicle; asymmetrical openings of the oviducts into the bursal canal; openings of vasa deferentia at halfway along the seminal vesicle; barrel-shaped penis papilla; ejaculatory duct with irregularly shaped lumen with several folds.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD7FFE644D7F4D3FE85FF1E" bold="true" box="[199,345,151,176]" pageId="3" pageNumber="46">Description.</emphasis>
Body size of living sexualized specimens ranged from
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in length and
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in width. Fissiparous specimens are notably smaller, measuring less than half the size of ex-fissiparous animals (
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). Two eyes are present in the middle of the head, and unpigmented auricular grooves are marginally placed just posteriorly to the eyes. The colour is uniformly brown dorsally, and pale ventrally. However, in the fissiparous specimens the pigmentation is always lighter than the ex-fissiparous animals.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD7FFE64487F3DDFED0F801" bold="true" box="[151,268,1945,1968]" pageId="3" pageNumber="46">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
.
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.
</emphasis>
Habitus of living specimens, (A) fissiparous individual, (B) ex-fissiparous individual.
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD0FFE14487F15DFED0FA81" bold="true" box="[151,268,1305,1328]" pageId="4" pageNumber="47">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
.
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<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD0FFE1450BF15FFE27FA9E" box="[283,507,1306,1328]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="4" pageNumber="47" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="afromontana">Dugesia afromontana</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Holotype ZMA V.Pl. 7108.1, sagittal reconstructions of the copulatory apparatus (anterior to the left), (A) male copulatory apparatus, (B) female copulatory apparatus.
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Inner and outer pharyngeal musculature is bilayered,
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD0FFE14724F133FC84FA20" box="[820,856,1399,1422]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="47">i.e.</emphasis>
without an extra, third, outer longitudinal muscle layer. The ovaries are hyperplasic, with several scattered masses distributed in the body region directly posterior to the brain, filling up the entire dorso-ventral space. These masses of ovarian tissue are already visible in living specimens through the dorsal body wall as small spot-like depigmented areas (
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). A degenerative condition is clearly evident in the ovaries. The oocytes develop by a regular mechanism up to the beginning of diplotene stage, then they show progressive cytoplasm vacuolation, followed by collapse of the entire cell content and by cell necrosis. The anterior portion of the infranucleate oviducts is expanded into a seminal receptacle that arises from the ovarian masses at a variable position, dependent upon the hyperplasic condition of the ovaries. The oviducts run ventrally in a caudal direction up to the vaginal area and open asymmetrically into the proximal section of the bursal canal. The right oviduct opens directly dorsally to the openings of the shell glands into the bursal canal, whereas the left oviduct opens more ventrally, very close to the point where the canal communicates with the common atrium (
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A).
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The testes are situated dorsally and extend from some distance posterior to the ovaries in station
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and from the level of the ovaries in station 1 animals to the posterior end of the body. The majority of the follicles are under-developed in station
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. Spermatogonia (
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD0FFE14747F3C6FCAEF837" box="[855,882,1922,1945]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="47">ca</emphasis>
. 70% of all germinal cells) are prevalent in the testes, while spermatocytes and spermatids are also evident. In only some specimens from the station 2 population mature sperms are present in a few follicles. In contrast, in the majority of the examined specimens of the station 1 population there are well developed testes with mature spermatozoa. However, in both cases anomalies were observed, such as an irregular shape of the spermatids and spermatozoa. Vitellaria are located, as usual, between the testes and the intestinal branches.
</paragraph>
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The large sac-shaped copulatory bursa is lined by a columnar, glandular epithelium bearing basal nuclei and it is surrounded by a layer of longitudinal muscles. In some specimens empty spermatophores are present in the lumen of the bursa. From the dorso-posterior wall of the bursa the bursal canal runs in a caudal direction, to the left of the copulatory apparatus, subsequently communicating with the common atrium. The bursal canal is lined by cylindrical, infranucleate, ciliated cells and is surrounded by a thin subepithelial layer of longitudinal muscles, followed by a very thick layer of circular muscle. The latter is thicker on the ventral side than on the dorsal side of the canal (
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B). The moderately developed penis bulb, rich in secreting glands, consists of intermingled longitudinal and circular muscle fibres. It houses an elongated seminal vesicle, lined by a nucleate epithelium, the cells of which irregularly protrude into the lumen.
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The vasa deferentia penetrate the proximal anterior section of the penis bulb and open separately and symmetrically into the seminal vesicle at a position about halfway along the vesicle. The seminal vesicle opens into the ejaculatory duct via a small diaphragm. The seminal vesicle is surrounded by loosely interwoven layers of circular and longitudinal muscle fibres (
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A). In the majority of the station
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the sperm ducts form well-developed spermiducal vesicles, packed with sperm. The diaphragm, located approximately at the base of the penis papilla, receives the openings of penis glands. The barrel-shaped penis papilla is lined by a nucleated epithelium that is underlain with a thin subepithelial layer of circular muscles fibres, followed by a layer of longitudinal muscles. The ejaculatory duct follows a basically central course through the penis papilla and opens terminally at the tip of the papilla. The ejaculatory duct has an irregularly shaped lumen with several folds; it is lined by a cuboidal, infranucleate epithelium. The ejaculatory duct receives the abundant erythrophil secretion of penis glands; in the majority of specimens examined the duct contained an empty spermatophore.
</paragraph>
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The genital atrium is divided into a common atrium and a male atrium and is lined by a nucleated epithelium that is underlain by a subepithelial layer of circular muscle, followed by a layer of longitudinal muscle fibres. The common atrium opens ventrally through the gonopore, forming a small enlargement characterized by a columnar epithelium, which receives the opening of very abundant cement glands (
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A).
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD1FFE044D7F0CCFE92FB0E" bold="true" box="[199,334,1160,1184]" pageId="5" pageNumber="48">Karyology.</emphasis>
Metaphasic plates obtained by the squashing method revealed that each of the 10 studied specimens constantly showed a set of 27+12 B-chromosomes, with a basic number of n = 9. Chromosomes from six metaphasic plates were arranged, according to their length, in nine groups of three chromosomes. Analysis within each group of three chromosomes revealed a distinct variation in centromere position and sometimes also in chromosome length. The karyometric values were calculated referring to a haploid set obtained from the single triplets by choosing the chromosome showing at least a second homologue. The first four chromosomes and the 9th element, the latter being the smallest, were clearly identifiable. Instead, in the 5th to 8th elements the differences in length were so slight that contiguous chromosomes overlapped (
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).
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<paragraph id="8BE336D4FFD1FFE044D7F1FCFD15F9EE" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1600]" pageId="5" pageNumber="48">
Chromosomal length decreases gradually, with low standard deviation values. In contrast, centromeric indices showed great variations, with the standard deviation being high for some elements. The karyometric data indicate that the triploid complement is characterized by metacentric heterobrachial chromosomes, except the third element, which is submetacentric (
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).
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD1FFE04487F23EFED8F921" bold="true" box="[151,260,1658,1679]" pageId="5" pageNumber="48">TABLE 1.</emphasis>
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.
</emphasis>
Mean values and standard deviations of the relative length (r.l.) and centromeric indices (c.i.) of the haploid set of chromosomes.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE336D4FFD1FFE046C8F289FC87F94D" blockId="5.[151,1436,1657,1887]" box="[728,859,1741,1763]" pageId="5" pageNumber="48">chromosome</paragraph>
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 r.l. 15.24±0.40 13.68±0.35 12.25±0.58 11.50±0.32 10.62±0.23 10.16±0.26 9.74±0.17 8.99±0.34 8.11±0.41 c.i. 47.60±2.08 45.95±3.50 35.83±2.56 44.21±2.30 46.63±2.95 42.82±3.10 45.96±1.83 46.75±2.89 46.63±2.95
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE344D7F0F4FE99FB67" bold="true" box="[199,325,1200,1225]" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">Life cycle.</emphasis>
The life cycle of the two populations, one from station 1 and the other from station 2, was monitored under laboratory conditions for five years. All individuals (n = 25) from the station 1 population were asexual at collection. After having been kept in the laboratory for about one year, during which the strain notably increased in numbers due to asexual reproduction by fission, approximately 30% of the specimens shifted from the fissiparous reproductive mode towards a tendency to sexualize,
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE347B0F106FC60FAF7" box="[928,956,1346,1369]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">i.e</emphasis>
. to develop reproductive organs. These sexualized animals displayed the characteristic features of ex-fissiparous individuals: large body size, development of the copulatory apparatus, hyperplasic ovaries. After more than two years a strain of two ex-fissiparous individuals produced four sterile cocoons. During the following two years other individuals also displayed a sexualization process but produced only sterile cocoons.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE34487F02AFED0FB2D" bold="true" box="[151,268,1134,1157]" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">FIGURE 4</emphasis>
.
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.
</emphasis>
(A) metaphasic plate, (B) karyogram, (C) karyotype idiogram.
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<paragraph id="8BE336D4FFD2FFE344D7F1B1FC48F883" blockId="6.[151,1436,1200,2017]" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">All individuals (n = 6) from the station 2 population were also asexual at collection. After having been kept in the laboratory for about 2 years, during which the strain notably increased in numbers due to fissioning processes, approximately 30% of the specimens attained the ex-fissiparous, sexual state. About one year later, a strain of five ex-fissiparous individuals produced eight cocoons. From the only three fertile cocoons five young planarians hatched after 23 weeks of development. In the following two months another 22 sterile cocoons were laid. Half a year later the five young planarians displayed fissioning processes. At more or less the same time the five exfissiparous individuals laid 11 cocoons from which one young planarian hatched after 3 weeks of development from the only three cocoons from which hatchlings arose. During the following two years other individuals also displayed a sexualization process but produced only sterile cocoons.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE344D7F37CFD1AF8FF" bold="true" box="[199,710,1848,1873]" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">Overview of African freshwater triclads.</emphasis>
The genus
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE3474CF37EFC66F8FF" box="[860,954,1850,1873]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">Dugesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is widely distributed in the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australasian regions, with about 75 nominal species (cf.
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). From the entire African continent only 19 species have been described (
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; Table 2): four for North-Africa (
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<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE347ACF3E2FBF8F813" box="[956,1060,1957,1981]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">D. sicula</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD2FFE3403EF3E1FB1FF813" author="Lepori" box="[1070,1219,1957,1981]" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" refString="Lepori, N. G. (1948) Descrizione di Dugesia sicula, nuova specie di Triclade d'acqua dolce dei dintorni di Catania. Archivio Zoologico Italiano, 33, 461 - 472." type="journal article" year="1948">Lepori, 1948</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD2FFE340C2F3E2FEA5F84F" authority="Draparnaud, 1801" authorityName="Draparnaud" authorityYear="1801" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="subtentaculata">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE340C2F3E2FA40F813" box="[1234,1436,1957,1981]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">D. subtentaculata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD2FFE3448EF38DFEB3F84F" author="Draparnaud" box="[158,367,1993,2017]" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" refString="Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier and Paris, an IX." type="book" year="1801">Draparnaud, 1801</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD2FFE34596F38EFC9AF84F" authority="Stocchino et al., 2009" authorityName="Stocchino et al." authorityYear="2009" box="[390,838,1993,2017]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="maghrebiana">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE34596F38EFDE3F84F" box="[390,575,1993,2017]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">D. maghrebiana</emphasis>
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Stocchino
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE346D1F38EFD29F84F" box="[705,757,1993,2017]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">et al</emphasis>
., 2009
</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD2FFE34744F38EFB38F84F" authority="Harrath &amp; Sluys, 2012" authorityName="Harrath &amp; Sluys" authorityYear="2012" box="[852,1252,1993,2017]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="tubqalis">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD2FFE34744F38EFC0FF84F" box="[852,979,1993,2017]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">D. tubqalis</emphasis>
Harrath &amp; Sluys, 2012
</taxonomicName>
), 12 for Central Africa (
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE244FEF4DDFDD5FF01" authority="Dahm, 1971" authorityName="Dahm" authorityYear="1971" box="[238,521,151,176]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="sudanica">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE244FEF4DDFEA9FF1E" box="[238,373,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. sudanica</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE2456DF4D3FDD5FF01" author="Dahm" box="[381,521,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Dahm, A. G. (1971) Dugesia sudanica sp. n. from Africa (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Paludicola). Zoologica Scripta, 1, 37 - 41." type="journal article" year="1971">Dahm, 1971</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24605F4DDFD4FFF1E" box="[533,659,152,176]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="lamottei">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24605F4DDFD4FFF1E" box="[533,659,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. lamottei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
de
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE246ACF4D3FC55FF01" author="Beauchamp" box="[700,905,151,175]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="De Beauchamp, P. (1952) Sur les Dugesia (Turbellaries Triclades) d'Afrique tropicale et de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 77, 362 - 370." type="journal article" year="1952">Beauchamp, 1952</bibRefCitation>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24784F4DDFB79FF01" authority="Dahm, 1967" authorityName="Dahm" authorityYear="1967" box="[916,1189,151,176]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="colapha">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24784F4DDFBCCFF1E" box="[916,1040,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. colapha</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE24007F4D3FB79FF01" author="Dahm" box="[1047,1189,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Dahm, A. G. (1967) A new Dugesia &quot; microspecies &quot; from Ghana belonging to the Dugesia gonocephala group, Turbellaria, Tricladida, Paludicola. Arkiv for Zoologi, 19, 309 - 321." type="journal article" year="1967">Dahm, 1967</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE240A0F4DDFF06FF7A" authority="Neppi, 1904" authorityName="Neppi" authorityYear="1904" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="neumanni">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE240A0F4DDFA9CFF1E" box="[1200,1344,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. neumanni</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE2415FF4D3FF0FFF7A" author="Neppi" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Neppi, V. (1904) Uber einige exotische Turbellarien. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 21, 303 - 326" type="journal article" year="1904">Neppi, 1904</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE244F5F4F9FD52FF7A" authority="Banchetti &amp; Del Papa, 1971" authorityName="Banchetti &amp; Del Papa" authorityYear="1971" box="[229,654,188,212]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="lanzai">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE244F5F4F9FE90FF7A" box="[229,332,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. lanzai</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE24542F4F8FD52FF7A" author="Banchetti" box="[338,654,188,212]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Banchetti, R. &amp; Del Papa, R. (1971) Descrizione della planaria Dugesia lanzai, n. sp. del Kenya (Africa). Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali, 78, 20 - 35." type="journal article" year="1971">Banchetti &amp; Del Papa, 1971</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24688F4F9FBEAFF7A" authority="De Beauchamp, 1951" authorityName="De Beauchamp" authorityYear="1951" box="[664,1078,188,212]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="congolensis">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24688F4F9FCE2FF7A" box="[664,830,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. congolensis</emphasis>
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Beauchamp, 1951
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24052F4F9FAAFFF7A" authority="Marcus, 1953" authorityName="Marcus" authorityYear="1953" box="[1090,1395,188,212]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="ectophysa">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24052F4F9FB08FF7A" box="[1090,1236,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. ectophysa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE240CAF4F9FAAFFF7A" author="Marcus" box="[1242,1395,188,212]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Marcus, E. (1953) Turbellaria Tricladida. In: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte, 1946 - 1949, 21, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1953">Marcus, 1953</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24191F4F9FE6DFF59" authority="Marcus, 1953" authorityName="Marcus" authorityYear="1953" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="astrocheta">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24191F4F9FED0FF56" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. astrocheta</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE24505F4A4FE6DFF59" author="Marcus" box="[277,433,223,247]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Marcus, E. (1953) Turbellaria Tricladida. In: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte, 1946 - 1949, 21, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1953">Marcus, 1953</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE245D1F4A5FCE5FF59" authority="De Vries, 1988" authorityName="De Vries" authorityYear="1988" box="[449,825,223,248]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="didiaphragma">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE245D1F4A5FD58FF56" box="[449,644,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. didiaphragma</emphasis>
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Vries, 1988
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24758F4A5FB05FF59" authority="De Beauchamp, 1952" authorityName="De Beauchamp" authorityYear="1952" box="[840,1241,223,248]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="machadoi">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24758F4A5FC07FF56" box="[840,987,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. machadoi</emphasis>
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Beauchamp, 1952
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</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE240F9F4A5FECBFEB2" authority="De Vries, 1988" authorityName="De Vries" authorityYear="1988" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="mirabilis">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE240F9F4A5FAAEFF56" box="[1257,1394,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. mirabilis</emphasis>
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Vries, 1988
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24534F541FD66FEB2" authority="Stocchino et al., 2002" authorityName="Stocchino et al." authorityYear="2002" box="[292,698,260,284]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="aethiopica">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE24534F541FE60FEB2" box="[292,444,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">D. aethiopica</emphasis>
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Stocchino
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), and three species for South-Africa (
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE2404BF541FE93FEEE" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE2404BF541FADBFEB2" box="[1115,1287,260,284]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="monomyoda">D. monomyoda</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24103F541FA4BFEB2" box="[1299,1431,261,284]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="capensis">D. capensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE24487F56DFE90FEEE" box="[151,332,296,320]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="afromontana">D. afromontana</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
this paper) (cf.
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;
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Stocchino
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,
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE2407DF563FB74FE91" author="Stocchino" box="[1133,1192,295,319]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="Stocchino, G. A., Manconi, R., Corso, G., Sluys, R., Casu, S. &amp; Pala, M. (2009) African planarians: Morphology and karyology of Dugesia maghrebiana sp. n. (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from Tunisia. Italian Journal of Zoology, 76, 83 - 91." type="journal article" year="2009">2009</bibRefCitation>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BE336D4FFD3FFE244D7F52BFB31FDF1" blockId="7.[151,1436,151,608]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">
This rather low number of records for Africa contrasts with the high values of taxonomic richness reported for other areas, such as the circum-Mediterranean subregion harbouring more than 20 species of
<taxonomicName id="4C5C4D57FFD3FFE240B6F5D1FADFFE02" box="[1190,1283,405,428]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Dugesiidae" genus="Dugesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Seriata" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B928EAC6FFD3FFE240B6F5D1FADFFE02" box="[1190,1283,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="50">Dugesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from a world total of about 75 nominal species (cf.
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<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE24708F5F3FC8FFE61" author="Vries" box="[792,851,439,463]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="De Vries, E. J. (1986) On the taxonomic status of Dugesia gonocephala and Dugesia subtentaculata (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Paludicola). Journal of Zoology (London), 209, 43 - 59." type="journal article" year="1986">1986</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFCD4B25FFD3FFE24772F5F3FC77FE61" author="Vries" box="[866,939,439,463]" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" refString="De Vries, E. J. (1988 b) Further contributions to the taxonomy and biogeography of the subgenus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Paludicola) in the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Israel Journal of Zoology, 35, 109 - 136." type="journal article" year="1988" yearSuffix="b">1988b</bibRefCitation>
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;
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Stocchino
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). Besides the genus
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,
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three other genera (
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,
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and
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), comprising 7 species, have been reported for the
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on the African continent. For the
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and
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, which are exclusively present in the Palaearctic section of the continent, only 7 species belonging to 3 genera (
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,
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</taxonomicName>
and
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) have been reported up to now, out of a total of 33 species (Table 2).
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