Anzoplanini

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Anzoplanini
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Rhynchodeminae
Tribe: Anzoplanini
Winsor, 2006 [1]
Genera

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Anzoplanini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae. [1]

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Description

The tribe Anzoplanini contains land planarians with dorsoventral testes, a condition that in land planarians is considered intermediate between a primitive ventral condition and a derivate dorsal condition. The mesenchymal musculature contains longitudinal fibers forming either a ventral plate or a ring around the intestine. [2]

Genera

Currently, the tribe Anzoplanini comprises the following genera:

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References

  1. 1 2 Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Riutort, M.; Baguñà, J. (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History. 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669.
  2. 1 2 3 Winsor, L. (2006). "New and revised terrestrial flatworm taxa (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) of Australia and the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand" (PDF). Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 17: 81–104. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. Winsor, L. (2011). "Some terrestrial flatworm taxa (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Continenticola) of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand" (PDF). Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 22: 161–169. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg