Neppia

Neppia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Turbellaria
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Continenticola
Family:	Dugesiidae
Genus:	Neppia Ball, 1974
Species
see text[1]

Neppia is a genus of dugesiid triclad that is found in South America, Subantarctic region, Africa, Tasmania and New Zealand.^[2][3]

Until 1974 Neppia was considered a subgenus of Dugesia.^[4]

Phylogeny and taxonomy

Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008:^[5]

Dugesiidae	Girardia Neppia Cura Schmidtea Dugesia

Species

• Neppia boehmigi (Weiss, 1910)
• Neppia evelinae (Marcus, 1955)
• Neppia falklandica (Westblad, 1952)
• Neppia jeanneli (Beauchamp, 1913)
• Neppia magnibursalis Sluys & Kawakatsu, 2001
• Neppia montana (Nurse, 1950)
• Neppia paeta (Marcus, 1955)
• Neppia tinga (Marcus, 1955)
• Neppia schubarti (Marcus, 1946)
• Neppia wimbimba (Marcus, 1970)

References

1. • Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 Database
2. De Vries, E. J.; Sluys, R. (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola)". Journal of Zoology 223 (1): 103–116. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04752.x.
3. Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M. 2001: Contribution to an inventory of the freshwater planarians of Australia and New Zealand (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae), with distribution maps of the species examined. Beaufortia, 51: 163-198
4. Ball, I. R. 1974. A new genus of freshwater triclad from Tasmania with reviews of the related genera Cura and Neppia (Turbellaria, Tricladida). Life Sci. Contr. R. Ont. Mus. No. 99:1-48.
5. Álvarez-Presas, M.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2008). "Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (2): 555–568. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032. PMID 18359250.