Dugesia notogaea

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Dugesia notogaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Tricladida
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Dugesia
Species:
D. notogaea
Binomial name
Dugesia notogaea
Sluys & Kawakatsu, 1998

Dugesia notogaea is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits freshwater bodies of north Queensland, Australia. [1] [2]

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Phylogeny

D. notogaea position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009: [3]

  Dugesia  

  D. sicula

  D. aethiopica

  D. japonica

  D. ryukyuensis

 D. notogaea

  D. bengalensis

  D. subtentaculata

  D. gonocephala

  D. liguriensis

  D. etrusca

  D. ilvana

  D. benazzii

  D. hepta

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References

  1. Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Winsor, L. (1998). "The genus Dugesia in Australia, with its phylogenetic analysis and historical biogeography (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 27 (4): 273. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00461.x. S2CID   85102452.
  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, 51: 163-198
  3. Lázaro, E. M.; Sluys, R.; Pala, M.; Stocchino, G. A.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2009). "Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (3): 835–845. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.022. PMID   19435604.