Caenoplana

Caenoplana
Caenoplana coerulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Rhynchodeminae
Tribe: Caenoplanini
Genus: Caenoplana
Moseley, 1877
Type species
Caenoplana coerulea
Moseley, 1877

Caenoplana is a genus of land planarians from Australia and New Zealand.

Description

The genus Caenoplana is characterized by having en elongate, cylindrical to sub-cylindrical body. The eyes are arranged along the body margins, crowded irregulary at the sides of the anterior end and extending in a single row to the posterior end. The copulatory apparatus lacks a permanent penis, i. e., the penis is formed during copulation by folds in the male cavity. The female cavity is irregular and narrow and the ovovitelline ducts join each other behind it, entering it ventrally. [1]

Species

The genus Caenoplana includes, among others, the following species:

References

  1. Winsor, L. (1991). "A provisional classification of Australian terrestrial geoplanid flatworms (Tricladida: Terricola: Geoplanidae)". Victorian Naturalist 109 (2): 42–49.
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