Dugesia japonica

Dugesia japonica
Two headed D. japonica that regenerated from a trunk fragment exposed to Praziquantel.[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Continenticola
Family:	Dugesiidae
Genus:	Dugesia
Species:	D. japonica
Binomial name
Dugesia japonica Ichikawa & Kawakatsu, 1964

Dugesia japonica is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits the freshwater bodies of East Asia. Because it is under the genus dugesia, it is also sometimes considered a type of planarian.^[2]

Phylogeny

D. japonica position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009:^[3]

Dugesia	D. sicula  D. aethiopica  D. japonica  D. ryukyuensis  D. notogaea  D. bengalensis  D. subtentaculata  D. gonocephala  D. liguriensis  D. etrusca  D. ilvana  D. benazzii  D. hepta

References

1. Nogi, T.; Zhang, D.; Chan, J. D.; Marchant, J. S. (2009). Keiser, Jennifer, ed. "A Novel Biological Activity of Praziquantel Requiring Voltage-Operated Ca2+ Channel β Subunits: Subversion of Flatworm Regenerative Polarity". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 3 (6): e464. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000464. PMC 2694594. PMID 19554083.
2. Hong-Chung, Pan (2008-03). "EFFECT OF MEDIUM pH ON POPULATION GROWTH,ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION AND ACTIVITY OF SIX ENZYMES OF DUGESIA JAPONICA". Acta Hydr Sin Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica. Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. Lázaro, E. M.; Sluys, R.; Pala, M.; Stocchino, G. A.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2009). "Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (3): 835–845. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.022. PMID 19435604.