Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877

Suárez, Daniel, Pedrianes, Juan Ramón & Andújar, Carmelo, 2022, DNA barcoding reveals new records of invasive terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in the Macaronesian region, Zootaxa 5129 (3), pp. 447-450 : 448

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.3.9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6501311

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scientific name

Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877
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Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877 View in CoL

Material examined: PORTUGAL: Madeira: Faial , 32.793609°N, - 16.848819°W, 20 m, 7.IX.2019, 1 ex. (GenBank accession number OM 019322 View Materials ), C. Andújar leg., found in a soil sample near a beach GoogleMaps .

This species is native to Australia but has been introduced to New Zealand, the United States, Argentina, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain, including the Balearic and Canary archipelagos ( Álvarez-Presas et al. 2014; Breugelmans et al. 2012; Luis-Negrete et al. 2011; Suárez et al. 2018). Here we provide the first record from Madeira. Álvarez-Presas et al. (2014) found that C. coerulea was subdivided in three main clades. Our specimen from Madeira matches to a clade including sequences from Australia, Catalonia and the Canary Islands ( Spain) ( Figure 1B View FIGURE 1 ).

Alvarez-Presas, M., Mateos, E., Tudo, A., Jones, H. & Riutort, M. (2014) Diversity of introduced terrestrial flatworms in the Iberian Peninsula: A cautionary tale. PeerJ, 2, e 430. https: // doi. org / 10.7717 / peerj. 430

Breugelmans, K., Cardona, J. Q., Artois, T., Jordaens, K. & Backeljau, T. (2012) First report of the exotic blue land planarian, Caenoplana coerulea (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae), on Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). ZooKeys, 199, 91 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 199.3215

Luis-Negrete, L. H., Brusa, F. & Winsor, L. (2011) The blue land planarian Caenoplana coerulea, an invader in Argentina. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 82, 287 - 291. https: // doi. org / 10.22201 / ib. 20078706 e. 2011.1.450

Moseley, H. N. (1877) Memoirs: Notes on the Structure of Several Forms of Land Planarians, with a Description of Two New Genera and several New Species, and a List of all Species at present known. Journal of Cell Science, 18, 273 - 292. https: // doi. org / 10.1242 / jcs. s 2 - 17.67.273

Suarez, D., Martin, S. & Naranjo, M. (2018) First report of the invasive alien species Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877 (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in the subterranean environment of the Canary Islands. Subterranean Biology, 26, 67 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / SUBTBIOL. 26.25921

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FIGURE 1. Maximum-likelihood tree of invasive terrestrial flatworms, based on COI sequences. Bootstrap values are presented only for main clades. Countries are indicated after GenBank accession number. Red: specimens sequenced in this study. A. Caenoplana coerulea tree. B. Endeavouria septemlineata tree. C. Obama nungara tree.

OM

Otago Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Order

Tricladida

Family

Geoplanidae

SubFamily

Rhynchodeminae

Genus

Caenoplana