Caenoplana

Caenoplana
Caenoplana coerulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Order:	Tricladida
Family:	Geoplanidae
Tribe:	Caenoplanini
Genus:	Caenoplana Moseley, 1877
Type species
Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877
Synonyms
ElattodemusHaslauer-Gamisch, 1982

Caenoplana is a genus of land planarians from Australia and New Zealand.

Description

The genus Caenoplana is characterized by having an elongate, cylindrical to sub-cylindrical body. The eyes are arranged along the body margins, crowded irregularly at the sides of the anterior end and extending in a single row to the posterior end. The copulatory apparatus lacks a permanent penis, i. e., the penis is formed during copulation by folds in the male cavity. The female cavity is irregular and narrow and the ovovitelline ducts join each other behind it, entering it ventrally. ^[1]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Caenoplana:

• Caenoplana albolineata (Steel, 1897)
• Caenoplana barringtonensis (Wood, 1926)
• Caenoplana citrina (Wood, 1926)
• Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877 – Blue garden flatworm
• Caenoplana daemeli (Graff, 1899)
• Caenoplana decolorata Mateos, Jones, Riutort, & Álvarez-Presas, 2020 ^[2]
• Caenoplana dubia (Dendy, 1891)
• Caenoplana graffi (Froehlich, 1959)
• Caenoplana hillii (Steel, 1897)
• Caenoplana hoggii (Dendy, 1891) – Hogg's flatworm
• Caenoplana micholitzi (Graff, 1899)
• Caenoplana munda Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888
• Caenoplana ponderosa (Steel, 1897)
• Caenoplana purpurea (Dendy, 1894)
• Caenoplana sieboldi (Graff, 1899)
• Caenoplana spenceri Dendy, 1889 – Spencer's flatworm
• Caenoplana steenstrupi Krsmanovie, 1898
• Caenoplana steinboecki (Haslauer-Gamisch, 1982)
• Caenoplana sulphurea (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888)
• Caenoplana tenuis (Dendy, 1894)
• Caenoplana variegata (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888) ^[3] – Two-toned planarian
• Caenoplana viridis (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888)

References

1. Winsor, L. (1991). "A provisional classification of Australian terrestrial geoplanid flatworms (Tricladida: Terricola: Geoplanidae)". Victorian Naturalist. 108 (2): 42–49. BHL
2. Mateos, Eduardo; Jones, Hugh D.; Riutort, Marta; Álvarez-Presas, Marta (2020). "A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata". PeerJ. 8 e10013. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10013 . hdl: 2445/194158 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   7534684 . PMID   33062435.
3. Jones, Hugh D.; Mateos, Eduardo; Riutort, Marta; Álvarez-Presas, Marta (5 February 2020). "The identity of the invasive yellow-striped terrestrial planarian found recently in Europe: Caenoplana variegata (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888) or Caenoplana bicolor (Graff, 1899)?". Zootaxa. 4731 (2): 193–222. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4731.2.2. eISSN   1175-5334. ISSN   1175-5326. PMID   32229814.