Lake Pedder planarian

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Lake Pedder planarian
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Extinct  (outdated [1] )  (IUCN 2.3) [2]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Romankenkius
Species:
†R. pedderensis
Binomial name
†Romankenkius pedderensis
Ball, 1974

The Lake Pedder planarian (Romankenkius pedderensis) is a species of invertebrate in the family Dugesiidae. [3] This species was gregarious within the aquatic community of the lake before it flooded, living alongside small fish and invertebrates such as the Pedder galaxias and Lake Pedder earthworm. [4]

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Distribution and conservation status

Lake Pedder, c. 1970 Lake pedder.jpg
Lake Pedder, c. 1970

The species is endemic to the Lake Pedder area in Tasmania, Australia. This species has been listed as extinct by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species since 1986, although their last conservation assessment was dated 1996. [2] Live specimens of this species were collected in 2006 [5] [ failed verification ] and the ongoing existence of the species was again confirmed in 2012. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Forteath, GNR; Osborn, AW (2012). "Survival of endemic invertebrates of Lake Pedder and Lake Edgar subsequent to inundation". Records of the Queen Victoria Museum. 116.
  2. 1 2 World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Romankenkius pedderensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T19741A9008480. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19741A9008480.en .
  3. ↑ Sluys, Ronald; Kawakatsu, Masaharu; Riutort, Marta; Baguñà, Jaume (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History. 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. Bibcode:2009JNatH..43.1763S. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669. S2CID   85174457.
  4. ↑ Vos, Rick De (25 September 2019). "Inundation, Extinction and Lacustrine Lives". Cultural Studies Review. 25 (1): 102–118. doi: 10.5130/csr.v25i1.6394 . ISSN   1837-8692.
  5. ↑ Grant, Lauryne J.; Sluys, Ronald; Blair, David (2006). "Biodiversity of Australian freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Paludicola): New species and localities, and a review of paludicolan distribution in Australia". Systematics and Biodiversity. 4 (4): 435–471. Bibcode:2006SyBio...4..435G. doi:10.1017/S1477200006002064. S2CID   86477420.


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