Continenticola | |
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From upper left: Dugesia subtentaculata, a dugesiid; Dendrocoelum cavaticum, a Dendrocoelidae; Platydemus manokwari , a Geoplanidae; and Polycelis felina, a Planariidae. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Rhabditophora |
Order: | Tricladida |
Suborder: | Continenticola Carranza et al., 1998 [1] |
Superfamilies and families [2] | |
Continenticola is a clade that includes the land planarians (Geoplanidae) and the freshwater triclads (Dendrocoelidae, Dugesiidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae).
On the basis of molecular evidences, Carranza and colleagues suggested in 1998 that the families of freshwater and land flatworms must be grouped together in a monophyletic group that they coined Continenticola. This grouping was accepted by Ronald Sluys in 2009. Despite the molecular evidences, there are no morphological apomorphies supporting this clade. [2]
Phylogenetic supertree after Sluys et al., 2009: [2]
Tricladida |
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Dugesia is a genus of dugesiid triclads that contains some common representatives of the class Turbellaria. These common flatworms are found in freshwater habitats of Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Dugesia is best known to non-specialists because of its regeneration capacities.
Planariidae is a family of freshwater planarians.
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms.
Dugesiidae is a family of freshwater planarians distributed worldwide. The type genus is Dugesia Girard, 1850.
Girardia is a genus of freshwater planarians belonging to the family Dugesiidae.
Dendrocoelidae is a family of freshwater tricladida flatworms that has a holarctic distribution.
Dugesia notogaea is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits freshwater bodies of north Queensland, Australia.
Dugesia sicula is a species of dugesiid triclad that lives in freshwater bodies of the Mediterranean Basin, where it is widely distributed. It has been reported from Sicily, Elba and Mallorca, Eivissa, Sardinia, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Crete.
Planarioidea is a superfamily of freshwater triclads that comprises the families Dendrocoelidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae.
Geoplanoidea is a superfamily of freshwater and land triclads that comprises the species of the Geoplanidae and the Dugesiidae families.
Kenkiidae is a family of freshwater triclads. Their species can be found sporadically in caves, groundwater, and deep lakes in Central Asia, Far East and North America.
Cura is a genus of freshwater flatworm (triclad) belonging to the family Dugesiidae.
Bdellouridae is a family of Maricola triclads.
Microplana is a genus of land planarians found in Europe and Africa.
Microplaninae is a subfamily of land planarians.
Geoplaninae is a subfamily of land planarians endemic to the Neotropical region.
Bipaliinae is a subfamily of land planarians found mainly in Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, although some species have been introduced worldwide.
Rhynchodeminae is a subfamily of land planarians with a worldwide distribution.
Caenoplanini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae mostly found throughout the Australasian and Oceanian realms.
Anzoplanini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae.