Pelmatoplana
Appearance
Pelmatoplana | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Order: | Tricladida |
Family: | Geoplanidae |
Tribe: | Pelmatoplaninini |
Genus: | Pelmatoplana Graff, 1896 |
Type species | |
Pelmatoplana moluccana Graff, 1899
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Pelmatoplana is a genus of land planarians in the tribe Pelmatoplanini.
Description
[edit]The genus Pelmatoplana includes planarians with weak cutaneous longitudinal musculature and strong parenchymal musculature forming a ring zone. The copulatory apparatus has a well-developed conical penis papilla and the female atrium lacks a seminal bursa, having only the female canal entering it. A genito-intestinal duct may be present connecting the female canal to the intestine.[1]
Species
[edit]The genus Pelmatoplana includes the following species:
- Pelmatoplana bogoriensis Graff, 1899
- Pelmatoplana braueri (Graff, 1899)
- Pelmatoplana graffi Fuhrmann, 1914
- Pelmatoplana japonica (Kaburaki, 1922)
- Pelmatoplana maheensis (Graff, 1899)
- Pelmatoplana moluccana Graff, 1899
- Pelmatoplana pseudophallus de Beauchamp, 1939
References
[edit]- ^ Ogren, R. E.; Kawakatsu, M. (1991). "Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part II: Caenoplaninae and Pelmatoplaninae". Bulletin of Fujis Women's College. 29: 35–58.