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

    • Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 Database
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
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