Dendrocoelidae

Dendrocoelidae
Dendrocoelum cavaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Turbellaria
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Superfamily: Planarioidea
Family: Dendrocoelidae
Hallez, 1892
Genera

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Dendrocoelidae is a family of freshwater tricladida flatworms that has an holarctic distribution.[1]

The largest freshwater triclad known belongs to this family, it's up to 40 cm in length and inhabits the Lake Baikal.[2]

Dendrocoelidae is the sister group of Kenkiidae.[1]

Genera

Dendrocoelidae genera known are the following:[3]

  • Acromyadenium
  • Alaoplana
  • Anocelis
  • Archicotylus
  • Armilla
  • Atria
  • Baikalobia
  • Baikalocotylus
  • Baikaloplana
  • Bdellocephala
  • Caspioplana
  • Dendrocoelopsis
  • Dendrocoelum
  • Hyperbulbina
  • Hyperpapillina
  • Miodendrocoelum
  • Papilloplana
  • Polycladodes
  • Procotyla
  • Protocotylus
  • Rimacephalus
  • Sorocelis

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic supertree after Sluys et al., 2009:[3]

Tricladida

Maricola




Cavernicola


Continenticola
Planarioidea

Planariidae




Kenkiidae



Dendrocoelidae




Geoplanoidea

Dugesiidae



Geoplanidae






References

  1. 1 2 Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M. (2006). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of dendrocoelid freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes): A morphological and eclectic approach". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44 (4): 274. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00371.x.
  2. Kozhov, M. 1963. Lake Baikal and Its Life. The Hague: W. Junk. vii + 344pp.
  3. 1 2 Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Riutort, M.; Baguñà, J. (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669.
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