@article {1682, title = {A new terrestrial planarian species of the genus Marionfyfea (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) found in Europe}, journal = {Journal of Natural HistoryJournal of Natural History}, volume = {50}, year = {2016}, note = {doi: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1208907}, month = {2016/11/09}, pages = {2673 - 2690}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, abstract = {

Small (c.\ 1\ cm long) terrestrial planarians found in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France are described as a new species, Marionfyfea adventor sp. nov. Individuals of the new species have a patchy brown external appearance with small, seemingly random pale blue-ish patches. They have multiple eyes, uniserial around the anterior end, biserial or triserial laterally for a short distance then sparsely uniserial and lateral to the posterior end. The anatomy is characterized by five or six pairs of ventral testes and a single pair of ovaries adjacent to the pharyngeal pouch. The base of each ovary is surrounded by parovarian cells. The penis is of the inverted type with a basal hemispherical seminal vesicle. Two adenodactyls, one ventral, one dorsal, are present in the common antrum. The only other known species of Marionfyfea is recorded only from the Auckland Islands, New Zealand and we assume that the new species has been introduced to Europe.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7AC3D565-0BEB-4B67-8BEC-11A13A70D663ABSTRACTSmall (c.\ 1\ cm long) terrestrial planarians found in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France are described as a new species, Marionfyfea adventor sp. nov. Individuals of the new species have a patchy brown external appearance with small, seemingly random pale blue-ish patches. They have multiple eyes, uniserial around the anterior end, biserial or triserial laterally for a short distance then sparsely uniserial and lateral to the posterior end. The anatomy is characterized by five or six pairs of ventral testes and a single pair of ovaries adjacent to the pharyngeal pouch. The base of each ovary is surrounded by parovarian cells. The penis is of the inverted type with a basal hemispherical seminal vesicle. Two adenodactyls, one ventral, one dorsal, are present in the common antrum. The only other known species of Marionfyfea is recorded only from the Auckland Islands, New Zealand and we assume that the new species has been introduced to Europe.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7AC3D565-0BEB-4B67-8BEC-11A13A70D663

}, isbn = {0022-2933}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1208907}, author = {Jones, Hugh D. and Sluys, Ronald} } @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} }