@article {1680, title = {The first troglobitic species of freshwater flatworm of the suborder Continenticola (Platyhelminthes) from South America}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {470}, year = {2015}, month = {12/01/2015}, pages = {1-16}, publisher = {Pensoft Publishers}, abstract = {

Brazilian cave diversity, especially of invertebrates, is poorly known. The Bodoquena Plateau, which is located in the Cerrado Biome in central Brazil, has approximately 200 recorded caves with a rich system of subterranean water resources and high troglobitic diversity. Herein we describe a new troglobitic species of Girardia that represents the first obligate cave-dwelling species of the suborder Continenticola in South America. Specimens of the new species, which occur in a limestone cave in the Bodoquena Plateau, in the Cerrado biome, are unpigmented and eyeless. Species recognition in the genus Girardia is difficult, due to their great morphological resemblance. However, the new species can be easily recognized by a unique feature in its copulatory apparatus, namely a large, branched bulbar cavity with multiple diverticula.

}, isbn = {1313-29891313-2970}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.470.8728}, author = {de Souza, Stella Teles and Nunes Morais, Ana Laura and Cordeiro , L{\'\i}via Medeiros and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria} } @article {1670, title = {Preference for different prey allows the coexistence of several land planarians in areas of the Atlantic Forest}, year = {2016}, pages = { - }, abstract = {

AbstractLand planarians are recognized as important predators, yet studies on their feeding habits are usually restricted to invasive species. Thus, it is difficult to determine the real ecological role of this group in ecosystems and how their communities are structured. In the present study, we analyzed the diet of six co-occurring Neotropical land planarians and their success in capturing prey, based on experiments in the laboratory, in order to determine how they share resources in the same environment. We also calculated indices of food niche breadth and food niche overlap for land planarians for the first time. The diet of Luteostriata abundans comprises only woodlice and the diets of Obama ficki and Obama ladislavii are composed only of gastropods, while Paraba multicolor and Obama anthropophila feed on both gastropods and other land planarians. An invasive species recently found in Western Europe, Obama nungara, showed the highest food niche breadth, feeding on gastropods, earthworms and planarians. We found the highest niche overlap between O. anthropophila and P. multicolor. The results suggest that land planarians are frequent predators of woodlice and land gastropods in the Neotropical ecozone and thus are important for the maintenance of native ecosystems and for the control of invasive species. The coexistence of several species in the same habitat is possible due to the use of different species as main prey, which reduces interspecific competition.

}, keywords = {Geoplanidae, Levins{\textquoteright} index, Pianka{\textquoteright}s index, Planarian food niches, Platyhelminthes}, isbn = {0944-2006}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0944200616300216}, author = {Boll, Piter Kehoma and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria} } @article {1540, title = {Focus on the details: morphological evidence supports new cryptic land flatworm (Platyhelminthes) species revealed with molecules}, journal = {Organisms Diversity \& Evolution}, volume = {15}, year = {2015}, pages = {379-403}, author = {{\'A}lvarez-Presas, Marta and Amaral, Silvana and Carbayo, Fernando and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria and Riutort, Marta} } @article {1497, title = {Two new Geoplaninae species (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from Southern Brazil based on an integrative taxonomic approach}, journal = {Journal of Natural HistoryJournal of Natural History}, year = {2015}, note = {doi: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1084057}, month = {2015/10/29}, pages = {1 - 29}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, abstract = {

The genera Cratera Carbayo et al., 2013 and Obama Carbayo et al., 2013, belonging to the subfamily Geoplaninae, were recently proposed to encompass some of the species that belonged to the genus Geoplana Stimpson, 1857. Herein we describe two new species of Geoplaninae, occurring in areas of ombrophilous forest which belong to the southern portion of the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest. The species are sympatric in their type-locality. In general, both new species herein described match the diagnostic characteristics of their genera. However, some of these features are noteworthy when characters of the new species are taken into consideration, especially the pattern of the sensory pits and the morphology of the prostatic vesicle. Both species are differentiated from their congeners by a combination of morphological characteristics, corroborated by phylogenetic analyses of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene, using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, as well as the Automatic Barcode Gap tool.

}, isbn = {0022-2933}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1084057}, author = {Rossi, Ilana and Amaral, Silvana Vargas and Ribeiro, Giovana Gamino and Cauduro, Guilherme Pinto and Fick, Israel and Valiati, Victor Hugo and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria} } @article {boll_predation_2015, title = {Predation on invasive land gastropods by a {Neotropical} land planarian}, journal = {Journal of Natural History}, volume = {49}, number = {17-18}, year = {2015}, pages = {983{\textendash}994}, issn = {0022-2933, 1464-5262}, doi = {10.1080/00222933.2014.981312}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933.2014.981312}, author = {Boll, Piter Kehoma and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria} } @article {39, title = {Terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) diversity versus man-induced disturbance in an ombrophilous forest in southern Brazil}, journal = {Biodiversity and Conservation}, volume = {11}, number = {6}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {1091-1104}, chapter = {1091}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015865005604}, author = {Carbayo, Fernando and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria and Vieira, Emerson M.} } @article {53, title = {Redescription of Choeradoplana iheringi Graff (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Terricola)}, journal = {Revista Brasileira de Zoologia}, volume = {20}, number = {3}, year = {2003}, month = {09/2003}, pages = {523{\textendash}530}, chapter = {523}, author = {Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria and Souza, Simone} } @article {659, title = {Chromosome polymorphism and complements in populations of Girardia species (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola) from Southern Brazil}, journal = {Brazilian Journal of Biology}, volume = {67}, number = {4, suppl.}, year = {2007}, month = {12/2007}, pages = {951-955}, abstract = {

The karyotypes of four species of freshwater triclads of the genus Girardia (Platyhelminthes), i.e. G. schubarti, G. tigrina, G. anderlani, and G. biapertura, from populations of different localities of the Rio Grande do Sul State, in southern Brazil, were analyzed. The karyotype of G. biapertura is presented for the first time. Three basic complements of 4, 8, and 9 chromosomes were found. Diploids, triploids, or mixoploids (2n/3n) specimens were frequently detected in these populations. The basic chromosomal complement of n = 9 was verified in two different species (G. biapertura and G. anderlani), presenting a large acrocentric chromosome which is rare in the family Dugesiidae. An intra and interspecific chromosomal variability was also detected and its evolutionary implications are discussed.

}, issn = {1519-6984}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-69842007000500021}, url = {http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract\&pid=S1519-69842007000500021\&lng=en\&nrm=iso\&tlng=en}, author = {Benya, E. and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria and Santos, W. H. and Hauser, J. and Erdtmann, B.} } @article {311, title = {Two new species of land flatworms and comments on the genus Pasipha Ogren \& Kawakatsu, 1990 (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {3583}, year = {2012}, pages = {1{\textendash}21}, author = {Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria and ILANA ROSSI and ANA L{\'U}CIA RAMOS SEITENFUS and JULIANA ALVARENGA} } @article {728, title = {A new species of Supramontana Carbayo \& Leal-Zanchet (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) from the Interior Atlantic Forest}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {3753}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, chapter = {177}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.7}, author = {NEGRETE, LISANDRO and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria and BRUSA, FRANCISCO} } @article {769, title = {Effects of pine invasion on land planarian communities in an area covered by Araucaria moist forest}, journal = {Zoological Studies}, volume = {53}, year = {2014}, chapter = {19}, author = {de Oliveira, Simone M and Boll, Piter K and Baptista, Vanessa dos Anjos and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria} } @article {775, title = {A new species of land flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from areas of Araucaria Forest in southern Brazil}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {3794}, number = {4}, year = {2014}, pages = {514-524}, author = {ILANA ROSSI and Marcela Fontoura and Silvana Amaral and Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria} }