Cura (flatworm)

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Cura
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Cura foremanii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Cura
Strand, 1942 [1]
Species [2]

Cura is a genus of freshwater flatworm (triclads) belonging to the family Dugesiidae.

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Cura was ranked as a subgenus of Dugesia until 1974, then it was elevated to the genus rank. [3]

Description

Individuals of this genus have a low triangle-shaped head. [4]

Distribution

Cura species present a disjunct distribution. C. foremanii inhabits North America, [5] while C. fortis is found in New Zealand, [6] and C. pinguis in Australia, New Zealand, [6] and New Caledonia. [7]

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008: [8]

Dugesiidae

References

  1. ↑ Strand E., 1942. Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica. X. Folia Zool. Hydrobiol., 11: 386-402
  2. ↑ Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 Database Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  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. ↑ Ball IR: A contribution to the phylogeny and biogeography of the freshwater triclads (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria). Biology of the Turbellaria (Edited by: Riser NW & Morse MP). New York: McGraw-Hill New York 1974, pp.339-401.
  5. ↑ Ball, I. N. R.; Fernando, C. H. (1969). "Freshwater Triclads (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria) and Continental Drift". Nature. 221 (5186): 1143–1144. Bibcode:1969Natur.221.1143B. doi:10.1038/2211143a0. PMID   4975274.
  6. 1 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/Bull Zool Mus Univ Amsterdam 51(10):163-198
  7. ↑ Kawakatsu, M., 1969. Report on freshwater and land planarians from New Caledonia. Bull. Osaka Mus. Nat. Hist., 22: 1-14
  8. ↑ 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. Bibcode:2008MolPE..47..555A. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032. PMID   18359250.
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