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Sarcoplanini Almeida & Álvarez-Presas & Carbayo 2023, TRIB. NOV.

Description

SARCOPLANINI ALMEIDA & CARBAYO TRIB. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: D16FF0B2-C7D9-4082-9C98-09D81831A7AF

Diagnosis: Geoplaninae with narrow-to-wide creeping sole, ranging between 51 and 83% of the body width. Eyes marginal. With sensory depressions. Subneural parenchymal decussate muscle present. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Generally provided with a cephalic retractor muscle, branched glands associated with the prostatic vesicle and genital musculoglandular organs. Sarcoplanini include the genera Liana E.M. Froehlich, 1978, Mapuplana Grau et al., 2022, Pichidamas Bulnes et al., 2018, Sarcoplana and Wallmapuplana Negrete et al., 2020.

Type genus: Sarcoplana Almeida & Carbayo gen. nov.

Distribution: Regiones Maule, La Araucanía, Los Lagos, and Aisén (Chile); Provinces Neuquén, Rio Negro and Chubut (Argentina).

Notes

Published as part of Almeida, Ana Laura, Álvarez-Presas, Marta & Carbayo, Fernando, 2023, The discovery of new Chilean taxa revolutionizes the systematics of Geoplaninae Neotropical land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), pp. 837-898 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (4) on page 877, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072, http://zenodo.org/record/7813977

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Almeida & Álvarez-Presas & Carbayo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Order
Tricladida
Family
Geoplanidae
Taxon rank
tribe
Taxonomic status
trib. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Sarcoplanini Almeida & Carbayo, 2023

References

  • Froehlich EM. 1978. On a collection of Chilean land planarians. Boletins de Zoologia da UniVersidade de Sao Paulo 3: 7 - 80.
  • Grau JH, Almeida AL, Sluys R, Carbayo F. 2022. A new genus and two new species of land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) from Southern Chile, including the Chonos archipelago. Journal of Natural History 56: 947 - 967.
  • Bulnes VN, Grau JH, Carbayo F. 2018. A new Chilean genus and species of land planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida, Geoplaninae) with cephalic retractor muscle and adenodactyl. Journal of Natural History 52: 2553 - 2566.
  • Negrete L, Alvarez-Presas M, Riutort M, Brusa F. 2020. Integrative taxonomy of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from the Andean-Patagonian Forests from Argentina and Chile, with the erection of two new genera. Journal of Zoological Systematics and EVolutionary Research 59: 588 - 612.