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Schmidtea polychroa (Schmidt, 1861) Ball 1974
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Description
Schmidtea polychroa (Schmidt, 1861) Ball, 1974
Habitat and locality in Tunisia from bibliography. Animals were found among large numbers of isopods in the spring Ain El Ajmi, located at about 12 km from the town of Dahmani, not far from the Roman ruins of El Medeina (Harrath et al. 2012a).
Other localities in the world. Netherlands (Young 1972); Algeria (Gauthier 1923, Harrath et al. 2012a), France (Vila et al. 2004); Wales, Scotland, England (Ball & Reynoldson 1981); Germany (Beukeboom et al. 1996); Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden (Benazzi 1957); Canada, USA (Ball 1983).
Notes
Published as part of Gammoudi, Mehrez, Garbouj, Myriam, Egger, Bernhard & Tekaya, Saïda, 2017, Updated inventory and distribution of free-living flatworms from Tunisian waters, pp. 120-138 in Zootaxa 4263 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/572567
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- (Schmidt, 1861) Ball
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Order
- Seriata
- Family
- Dugesiidae
- Genus
- Schmidtea
- Species
- polychroa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Schmidtea polychroa (Schmidt, 1974 sec. Gammoudi, Garbouj, Egger & Tekaya, 2017
References
- Schmidt, O. (1861) Untersuchungen uber Turbellarien von Corfu und Cephalonia, nebst Nachtragen zu fruheren Arbeiten. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 11, 1 - 32.
- Harrath, A. H., Sluys, R., Merzoug, D., Yacoubi-Khbeiza, M., Alwasal, S. & Riutort, M. (2012 a) Freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from the Palearctic section of the African continent: new records, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 3182, 1 - 15.
- Young, J. O. (1972) The Turbellaria of some Friesland lakes with incidental records of Gasteropoda [sic] and Hirudinea. Zoologische Bijdragen, 13, 59 - 70.
- Vila, M., Sancho, M., Cardona, A., Fernandez, J. & Romero, R. (2004) New sexual population of Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850) KENK, 1974 (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria, Tricladida, Dugesidae), in southern France. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural Seccion Biologica, 99, 49 - 53.
- Ball, I. R. & Reynoldson, R. B. (1981) British Planarians. Platyhelminthes: Tricladida. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 141 pp.
- Beukeboom, L. W., Weinzierl, R. P., Reed, K. M. & Michiels, N. K. (1996) Distribution and origin of chromosomal races in the freshwater planarian Dugesia polychroa (Turbellaria: Tricladida). Hereditas, 124, 7 - 15.
- Benazzi, M. (1957) Cariologia di Dugesia lugubris (Schmidt) (Tricladida Paludicola). Caryologia, 10, 276 - 303. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00087114.1957.10797624
- Ball, I. R. (1983) Planarians, plurality and biogeographical explanations. In: Simms, R. W., Price, J. H. & Whalley, P. E. S. (Eds.), In Evolution, Time and Space: The Emergence of the Biosphere. Academic Press, London, pp. 409 - 430.