Geoplana vaginuloides
| Geoplana vaginuloides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Genus: | Geoplana |
| Species: | G. vaginuloides
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| Binomial name | |
| Geoplana vaginuloides (Darwin, 1844) Schultze, 1856
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Planaria vaginuloides Darwin, 1844 | |
Geoplana vaginuloides is a species of land planarian belonging to the subfamily Geoplaninae.[1] It is found in areas within the Atlantic Forest in the municipalities of Rio de Janeiro and Teresópolis, Brazil.[2]
Description[edit]
Geoplana vaginuloides is a flatworm around 70 mm in length and 4 mm in width. The body is elongate with parallel margins; the front tip is rounded and the back tip is pointed. The dorsal side has a black band running down the middle of the body, flanked on either side by a white-yellow stripe; outside of the yellow stripe is a thin black line, bordered by a reddish-iron colored band. The underlying base color is a saffron yellow. The ventral side is a grey color; at the head, the margins darken.[2]
Aside from its coloration, it is distinguished from other members of Geoplana by having two-layered musculature of the inner pharynx, a developed anteroventral region of the penis bulb, and a penis papilla with the dorsal insertion displaced anteriorly to level the ventral.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Geoplana vaginuloides (Darwin, 1844) Schultze, 1856". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ a b c Ana Laura Almeida and others, ‘Endless forms most beautiful’: taxonomic revision of the planarian Geoplana vaginuloides (Darwin, 1844) and discovery of numerous congeners (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 185, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 1–65. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly022
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