| Marionfyfea | |
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| Marionfyfea adventor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Tribe: | Anzoplanini |
| Genus: | Marionfyfea Winsor, 2011 |
| Type species | |
| Artioposthia carnleyi Fyfe, 1953 | |
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Marionfyfea is a genus of land planarians from Antarctic Islands off New Zealand. [1] However, a species has been described from specimens found in Europe, probably introduced. [2]
The genus Maryonfyfea includes land planarians of the tribe Anzoplanini that have a small and elongate body, with mouth just behind the mid body and gonopore closer to the mouth than to the posterior end. The mesenchymal musculature includes strong bundles of dorsal longitudinal muscles, weak bundles of longitudinal muscles forming a ring zone around the intestine, and small ventral bundles of mixed longitudinal and transversal muscles forming a subneural plate. The copulatory apparatus has an inverted penis and adenodactyls. [1]
According to Leigh Winsor, [1] [3] the name Marionfyfea honors Marion Fyfe (1894–1986), for "her pioneering taxonomic anatomical work on the Terricola of New Zealand". The genus was first described as FyfeaWinsor 2006, [1] which was preoccupied, then changed to MarionfyfeaWinsor, 2011. [3]
The genus Marionfyfea includes the following species:
The New Zealand flatworm is a large land flatworm native to New Zealand. It can vary from 5 mm in length when hatched to approximately 17 centimetres (6.7 in) in mature adults.
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms.
Bipalium is a genus of large predatory land planarians. They are often loosely called "hammerhead worms" or "broadhead planarians" because of the distinctive shape of their head region. Land planarians are unique in that they possess a "creeping sole", a highly ciliated region on the ventral epidermis that helps them to creep over the substrate. Several species are considered as invasive to the United States and to Europe. Some studies have begun the investigation of the evolutionary ecology of these invasive planarians.
Bipalium kewense is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is sometimes referred to as a "hammerhead flatworm" due to its half-moon-shaped head, but this name is also used to refer to other species in the subfamily Bipaliinae.
Microplana is a genus of land planarians found in Europe and Africa.
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.
Rhynchodemini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae.
Caenoplanini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae mostly found throughout the Australasian and Oceanian realms.
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich was a Brazilian zoologist.
Anzoplanini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae.
Marionfyfea adventor is a species of land planarian described in 2016 from specimens found in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France. However, since the species belongs to the genus Marionfyfea, of which the species are known only from subantarctic islands off New Zealand, it is probably an introduced species in Europe.
Othelosoma is a genus of land planarians found in Africa and India.
Marionfyfea carnleyi is a species of land planarian from Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand.
Anzoplana is a genus of land planarians from Australia, currently comprising a single species, Anzoplana trilineata.
Kontikia is a genus of land planarians native from islands in the Indo-Pacific region, but several species have been introduced elsewhere.
Digonopyla is a monotypic genus of land planarians in the tribe Rhynchodemini. It contains a single species, Digonopyla harmeri.
Pelmatoplanini is a tribe of land planarians in the subfamily Rhynchodeminae.
Eudoxiatopoplana is a genus of land planarians from New Zealand, currently comprising a single species, Eudoxiatopoplana bilaticlavia, that occurs in Stewart Island. It is the sole genus of the subfamily Eudoxiatopoplaninae.
Marion Liddell Fyfe was a New Zealand academic, specialising in taxonomy of planarians and other flatworms, the first woman zoology lecturer at the University of Otago, and the first woman to be elected to the Council of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
