Obama (genus)
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Rhabditophora |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Suborder: | Continenticola |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Subfamily: | Geoplaninae |
| Genus: | Obama Carbayo et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| Geoplana fryi Graff, 1899 | |
Obama is a genus of land planarians from South America.
Description
The genus Obama is characterized by having a leaf-shaped body. Most species are about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long, but some may reach over 20 centimetres (7.9 in). The hundreds of eyes distributed along the body are of two types: monolobulated, which are simple and circular, and trilobulated, which have three lobes. The copulatory apparatus has a protrusible penis occupying the entire male atrium or most of it. It is very similar to the related genus Cratera, the main difference being the absence of trilobulated eyes in the latter.[1]
Etymology
The name Obama is formed by a composition of the Tupi words oba (leaf) and ma (animal), being a reference to the body shape of species in this genus.[1]
Species
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There are 38 species assigned to the genus Obama:
- Obama apeva (Froehlich, 1959)
- Obama applanata (Graff, 1899)
- Obama anthropophila Amaral, Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2015
- Obama argus (Graff, 1899)
- Obama assu (Froehlich, 1959)
- Obama baptistae (Leal-Zanchet & Oliveira, 2012)
- Obama braunsi (Graff, 1899)
- Obama burmeisteri (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
- Obama carbayoi (Oliveira & Leal-Zanchet, 2012)
- Obama carinata (Riester, 1938)
- Obama carrierei (Graff, 1897)
- Obama catharina (Hyman, 1957)
- Obama decidualis Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2015
- Obama dictyonota (Riester, 1938)
- Obama divae (Marcus, 1951)
- Obama eudoxiae (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990)
- Obama eudoximariae (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990)
- Obama evelinae (Marcus, 1951)
- Obama ferussaci (Graff, 1897)
- Obama ficki (Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 1990)
- Obama fryi (Graff, 1899)
- Obama glieschi (Froehlich, 1959)
- Obama itatiayana (Schirch, 1929)
- Obama josefi (Carbayo & Leal-Zanchet, 2001)
- Obama ladislavii (Graff, 1899)
- Obama livia (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Obama maculipunctata Rossi, Amaral, Ribeiro, Cauduro, Fick, Valiati & Leal-Zanchet, 2015
- Obama marmorata (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
- Obama metzi (Graff, 1899)
- Obama nungara Carbayo, Álvarez-Presas, Jones & Riutort, 2016 [2]
- Obama otavioi Carbayo, 2016
- Obama poca (Froehlich, 1958)
- Obama polyophthalma (Graff, 1899)
- Obama riesteri (Froehlich, 1955)
- Obama rufiventris (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
- Obama ruiva (E. M. Froehlich, 1972)
- Obama schubarti (Froehlich, 1958)
- Obama trigueira (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
References
- 1 2 Carbayo, F.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Olivares, C. U. T.; Marques, F. P. L.; Froehlich, E. X. M.; Riutort, M. (2013). "Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: Proposal of taxonomic actions". Zoologica Scripta 42 (5): 508. doi:10.1111/zsc.12019.
- ↑ Carbayo, Fernando; Álvarez-Presas, Marta; Jones, Hugh D.; Riutort, Marta (2016). "The true identity of Obama (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) flatworm spreading across Europe". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (1): 5–28. doi:10.1111/zoj.12358. ISSN 0024-4082.