Table 1. Availability of type material of Schirch’s (1929) species. * Type specimens studied in this work. +Additional non-type specimens also studied.
Original name Current name Taxonomic revisions from conspecific specimens Number of type specimens according to Schirch (1929) Number of type specimens deposited in the MNRJ (reference)
Geoplana arpi Pseudogeoplana arpi No A few specimens 2*
G. blaseri Ps. blaseri No 1 Lost (this work)
G. bonita Ps. bonita No Not detailed 7
G. bresslaui Ps. bresslaui No 1 1*
G. cardosi Ps. cardosi No 1 Lost prior to deposition (Schirch 1929)
G. doederleini Ps. doederleini No Not detailed 3*
G. goettei G. goettei Froehlich (1955a) 1 Lost prior to deposition (Schirch 1929)
G. itatiayana Obama itatiayana Riester (1938); Carbayo et al. (2013) Several 3*+
G. lumbricoides Ps. lumbricoides No Not detailed Lost (this work)
G. maximiliani Ps. schirchi No 1 1*
G. obscura Ps. obscura No 1 Lost (this work)
G. plana Pasipha plana Froehlich (1955a) Not detailed; apparently some 4*+
G. rezendei Issoca rezendei Marcus (1951); Froehlich (1955a) Two at least 2
G. riedeli Ps. riedeli No 1 Lost prior to deposition (Schirch 1929)
G. theresopolitana Ps. theresopolitana No 1 Lost (Carbayo and Almeida 2015)
G. wetzeli Ps. wetzeli No Some 7*