| Kontikia | |
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| Kontikia ventrolineata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Tribe: | Caenoplanini |
| Genus: | Kontikia Froehlich, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Kontikia orana Froehlich, 1955 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Kontikia is a genus of land planarians native from islands in the Indo-Pacific region, but several species have been introduced elsewhere. [1]
The genus Kontikia includes planarians of elongate body, with a creeping sole that occupies one to two thirds of the body width. The mesenchymal musculature includes well-developed longitudinal muscles forming a ring zone around the intestine. [2] The copulatory apparatus may or may not have a distinct penis papilla, depending on the degree of contraction of the reproductive structures. [3] This led to an initial classification of specimens without a distinct penis papilla in another genus, Parakontikia. [4]
The complete mitochondrial genome of Kontikia ventrolineata (= Parakontikia ventrolineata) was described in 2020. It displays common unusual characteristics shared with Platydemus manokwari , such as its colinearity, an overlap between ND4L and ND4 genes and an unusually long cox2 gene. [5]
The genus Kontikia includes the following species:
