Cratera ochra

Cratera ochra
Cratera ochra in the National Forest of São Francisco de Paula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Geoplaninae
Genus: Cratera
Species: C. ochra
Binomial name
Cratera ochra
Rossi, Amaral, Ribeiro, Cauduro, Fick, Valiati & Leal-Zanchet, 2015

Cratera ochra is a species of Brazilian land planarian in the subfamily Geoplaninae.

Description

Cratera ochra is a medium-sized land planarian with a lanceolate body, reaching up to 85 millimetres (3.3 in) in length. The color of the dorsum is yellow-ochre covered with a dispersed greyish to greyish-brown pigmentation forming two diffuse and irregular longitudinal bands and two paramarginal longitudinal stripes slightly darker than the bands. The ventral side is pale-yellow.[1]

The several eyes of C. ochra are distributed marginally in the first milimeters of the body and posteriorly become dorsal, occupying around 40% of the body width on each side at the median third of the body.[1]

Etymology

The specific epithet ochra refers to the yellow-ochre color of the animal's dorsum.[1]

Distribution

The habitat of C. ochra includes moist forests in northeast Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, as well as plantations of Araucaria angustifolia and Pinus spp.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rossi, Ilana; Amaral, Silvana Vargas; Ribeiro, Giovana Gamino; Cauduro, Guilherme Pinto; Fick, Israel; Valiati, Victor Hugo; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2015). "Two new Geoplaninae species (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from Southern Brazil based on an integrative taxonomic approach". Journal of Natural History 50 (13–14): 787 – 815. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1084057. ISSN 0022-2933.
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