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Three new Neotropical species and a new genus of land flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplaninae)

Karine Gobetti de OLIVEIRA, Laura Bianco BOLONHEZI, Ana Laura ALMEIDA, Domingo LAGO-BARCIA & Fernando CARBAYO

en European Journal of Taxonomy 2020 (705) - Pages 1-21

Publié le 20 août 2020

Three new Neotropical species and a new genus of land flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplaninae)

Three new Neotropical land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplaninae) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest are described. Obama apiguara Oliveira, Almeida & Carbayo sp. nov. presents glandular fossae opening through dorsal epithelium, a structure not documented previously among land flatworms. Paraba tata Bolonhezi, Lago-Barcia & Carbayo sp. nov., is characterized by a prostatic vesicle horizontal with an inconspicuous bifurcate portion, a penis papilla as long as male atrium and a female genital duct projected from the postero-dorsal section of the female atrium. The third new species is distinctive in the extraordinarily thick muscle surrounding the prostatic vesicle, a finger-shaped penis papilla, and a dilated female genital cavity. These attributes stands the species apart from all members of Geoplaninae and Piima ata Carbayo gen. et sp. nov. is proposed.


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