Amaga Ogren and Kawakatsu, 1990

Grau, José Horacio, Sluys, Ronald, Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria & Carbayo, Fernando, 2012, Reflections on the genus Amaga Ogren and Kawakatsu 1990, and description of a new genus of land planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae), Journal of Natural History 46 (25 - 26), pp. 1529-1546 : 1531

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2012.691996

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B787AA-FFA2-3A15-FE43-64C0FD18C18C

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scientific name

Amaga Ogren and Kawakatsu, 1990
status

 

Genus Amaga Ogren and Kawakatsu, 1990 View in CoL

Emended diagnosis

Geoplaninae View in CoL of large broad and flattened body with well-developed glandular body margins. SMI: 5–7%. Testes placed above supra-intestinal parenchymal transverse muscular layer; male atrium folded, with ejaculatory duct opening through a small papilla-like fold; penis eversible; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, bifurcate and elongate. Ovovitelline ducts approaching copulatory apparatus from anterodorsal aspect and opening at the same point into the vagina. No cephalic specializations; subepidermal musculature not insunk. Parenchymal longitudinal musculature absent. Adenodactyls or glandulo-muscular organs absent. Type species: Geoplana amagensis Fuhrmann, 1914 View in CoL .

Distribution

Peru, Colombia and Amazonian Brazil.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Order

Tricladida

Family

Geoplanidae

Loc

Amaga Ogren and Kawakatsu, 1990

Grau, José Horacio, Sluys, Ronald, Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria & Carbayo, Fernando 2012
2012
Loc

Geoplana amagensis

Fuhrmann 1914
1914
Loc

Geoplaninae

Stimpson 1857
1857
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