Leptoplana Ehrenberg, 1831

Gammoudi, Mehrez, Egger, Bernhard, Tekaya, Saïda & Noreña, Carolina, 2012, The genus Leptoplana (Leptoplanidae, Polycladida) in the Mediterranean basin. Redescription of the species Leptoplana mediterranea (Bock, 1913) comb. nov., Zootaxa 3178, pp. 45-56 : 47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214240
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6170835
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scientific name	Leptoplana Ehrenberg, 1831
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Diagnosis (after Faubel 1983, emended): Leptoplanidae without tentacles with a genital pit between male and female gonopore. Male copulatory apparatus with seminal vesicle and penis developed as eversible unarmed cirrus. Prostatic vesicle with ventral diverticulum at its proximal end. Female apparatus usually with rudimentary Lang’s vesicle.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Platyhelminthes
Class	Rhabditophora
Order	Polycladida
Family	Leptoplanidae

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