Dugesia aenigma

Dugesia aenigma
Preserved specimen of D. aenigma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Dugesia
Species: D. aenigma
Binomial name
Dugesia aenigma
de Vries, 1984
Cephalonia, Greece
Synonyms
  • Planaria sagitta (Schmidt, 1861 (partially; Cephalonia material))

Dugesia aenigma is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits freshwater bodies of Cephalonia, Greece.[1]

Preserved specimens are up to 8 millimetres (0.31 in) in length and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in width.[1]

Phylogeny

The most inclusive molecular analysis of Dugesia carried out shows that D. aenigma is closely related with other Greek species, mainly with those inhabiting the Ionian Sea.[2]

Dugesia


D. aethiopica



D. sicula







D. etrusca



D. ilvana





D. gonocephala




D. benazzii



D. hepta







D. cretica






D. elegans




D. damoae



D. effusa






D. improvisa



D. ariadnae






D. arcadia




D. malickyi




D. aenigma




D. sagitta



D. parasagitta










References

  1. 1 2 De Vries, E. J., 1984. On the species of the Dugesia gonocephala group (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria, Tricladida) from Greece. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 54:101-126
  2. Solà, E.; Sluys, R.; Gritzalis, K.; Riutort, M. (2012). "Fluvial basin history in the northeastern Mediterranean region underlies dispersal and speciation patterns in the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.010.
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