@article {1902,
	title = {Hidden diversity in forest soils: Characterization and comparison of terrestrial flatworm{\textquoteright}s communities in two national parks in Spain},
	journal = {Ecology and EvolutionEcology and EvolutionEcol Evol},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2018},
	note = {doi: 10.1002/ece3.4178},
	month = {2018/08/01},
	pages = {7386 - 7400},
	publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd},
	abstract = {Abstract Terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, and Geoplanidae) belong to what is known as cryptic soil fauna of humid forests and are animals not easily found or captured in traps. Nonetheless, they have been demonstrated to be good indicators of the conservation status of their habitat as well as a good model to reconstruct the recent and old events affecting biodiversity. This is mainly due to their delicate constitution, their dependence on the integrity of their habitat, and their very low dispersal capacity. At present, little is known about their communities, except for some studies performed in Brazil. In this work, we analyze for the first time in Europe terrestrial flatworm communities. We have selected two protected areas belonging to the Red Espa{\~n}ola de Parques Nacionales. Our aims include performing a first study of the species richness and community structure for European terrestrial planarian species at regional and local scale. We evaluate the effect of type of forests in the community composition and flatworms? abundance, but also have into account the phylogenetic framework (never considered in previous studies) analyzed based on molecular data. We find differences in the species composition among parks, with an astonishingly high diversity of endemic species in the Parque Nacional de Picos de Europa and an extremely low diversity of species in the Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido. These divergent patterns cannot be attributed to differences in physical variables, and in addition, the analyses of their phylogenetic relationships and, for a few species, their genetic structure, point to a more probable historical explanation.},
	keywords = {Last Glacial Maximum, Microplana, molecular phylogenetics, refugia, soil ecology, species diversity},
	isbn = {2045-7758},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4178},
	author = {{\'A}lvarez-Presas, Marta and Mateos, Eduardo and Riutort, Marta}
}
@article {1681,
	title = {Towards a comprehensive, integrative analysis of the diversity of European microplaninid land flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Microplaninae), with the description of two peculiar new species},
	journal = {Systematics and BiodiversitySystematics and Biodiversity},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2016},
	note = {doi: 10.1080/14772000.2015.1103323},
	month = {2016/01/02},
	pages = {9 - 31},
	publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
	abstract = {<p>The present study forms a first and major step towards a comprehensive morphological and molecular analysis of the species diversity of European microplaninid land planarians by presenting a molecular phylogenetic tree on the basis of alignments of the mitochondrial Cox1 gene from 158 specimens as well as a concatenated phylogeny (Cox1 and 18S genes) on the basis of 41 sequences for nine Microplana species included in this study. Genetic distances between and within known and new species were calculated. Combined morphological and molecular results facilitated an integrative delimitation of new species as well as the diagnosis of new populations of already known species. An integrative account is provided of two new and aberrant species from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. Through the molecular approach a Confirmed Candidate Species was detected among the newly sampled populations. Further we document samples from new localities for five already known species as well as new sites for the Confirmed Candidate Species. The new data considerably expand the European range of several already known species included in the present study. The results of an in-depth study of the taxonomic literature, as well as original material, are documented since this was required for appropriate identification of the new materials. This part of the study resulted in a re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of several nominal species and in the following taxonomic conclusions: Rhynchodemus pyrenaicus is a species of Microplana and not Rhynchodemus; Rhynchodemus attemsi, R. peneckei, and R. henrici should be transferred to the genus Microplana; Microplana attemsi and M. peneckei are not junior synonyms of M. henrici; Microplana styriaca is not a synonym of M. terrestris; Rhynchodemus howesi is not a junior synonym of M. pyrenaica and belongs to the genus Rhynchodemus and not to Microplana; Microplana richardi is not a synonym of M. terrestris. The current diagnosis of the genus Microplana should be amended such that it refers to the situation that the species generally have two small eyes but occasionally may have multiple eyes.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22B437AA-9D41-4DA0-AE3C-BD8F636CB96DThe present study forms a first and major step towards a comprehensive morphological and molecular analysis of the species diversity of European microplaninid land planarians by presenting a molecular phylogenetic tree on the basis of alignments of the mitochondrial Cox1 gene from 158 specimens as well as a concatenated phylogeny (Cox1 and 18S genes) on the basis of 41 sequences for nine Microplana species included in this study. Genetic distances between and within known and new species were calculated. Combined morphological and molecular results facilitated an integrative delimitation of new species as well as the diagnosis of new populations of already known species. An integrative account is provided of two new and aberrant species from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. Through the molecular approach a Confirmed Candidate Species was detected among the newly sampled populations. Further we document samples from new localities for five already known species as well as new sites for the Confirmed Candidate Species. The new data considerably expand the European range of several already known species included in the present study. The results of an in-depth study of the taxonomic literature, as well as original material, are documented since this was required for appropriate identification of the new materials. This part of the study resulted in a re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of several nominal species and in the following taxonomic conclusions: Rhynchodemus pyrenaicus is a species of Microplana and not Rhynchodemus; Rhynchodemus attemsi, R. peneckei, and R. henrici should be transferred to the genus Microplana; Microplana attemsi and M. peneckei are not junior synonyms of M. henrici; Microplana styriaca is not a synonym of M. terrestris; Rhynchodemus howesi is not a junior synonym of M. pyrenaica and belongs to the genus Rhynchodemus and not to Microplana; Microplana richardi is not a synonym of M. terrestris. The current diagnosis of the genus Microplana should be amended such that it refers to the situation that the species generally have two small eyes but occasionally may have multiple eyes.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22B437AA-9D41-4DA0-AE3C-BD8F636CB96D</p>
},
	isbn = {1477-2000},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2015.1103323},
	author = {Sluys, Ronald and Mateos, Eduardo and Riutort, Marta and {\'A}lvarez-Presas, Marta}
}
@article {57,
	title = {Molecular analysis of the diversity of terrestrial planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) in the Iberian Peninsula},
	journal = {Zoologica Scripta},
	volume = {38},
	number = {6},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {637-649},
	chapter = {637},
	issn = {1463-6409},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00398.x},
	author = {Mateos, Eduardo and Cabrera, Cristina and Salvador Carranza and Marta Riutort}
}
@article {154,
	title = {Land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) from the Iberian Peninsula: new records and description of two new species, with a discussion on ecology},
	journal = {Journal of Natural History},
	volume = {45},
	number = {15\&16},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {869 - 891},
	chapter = {869},
	doi = {10.1080/00222933.2010.536267},
	url = {http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/539097_788671212_935776938.pdf},
	author = {Miquel Vila-Farr{\'e} and Ronald Sluys and Mateos, Eduardo and Hugh D. Jones and Rafael Romero}
}
@article {483,
	title = {Integrative delineation of species of Mediterranean freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae)},
	journal = {Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society},
	volume = {169},
	number = {3},
	year = {2013},
	month = {11/2013},
	pages = {523{\textendash}547},
	chapter = {523},
	abstract = {<p>The paper presents an integrative taxonomic study on dugesiid freshwater flatworms from the north-eastern Mediterranean region by applying both morphological and molecular criteria in the formulation of stable species hypotheses. The morphological information obtained for the specimens was used in a traditional way by comparing the organismal traits of the various populations and candidate species with those of known species, as documented in the taxonomic literature and as revealed by examination of histological sections of museum specimens. In the molecular species delimitation the General Mixed Yule-Coalescent method (GMYC) was used. Results of this study (1) supported the presence of 13 Dugesia species in the Hellenic area (including D. sicula Lepori, 1948, a pan-Mediterranean species), (2) culminated in the description of four new Dugesia species, (3) suggested the presence of two Confirmed Candidate Species, (4) pointed to 12 GMYC-delimited units in Greece and two in Slovakia as Unconfirmed Candidate Species and (5) revealed the presence of an entirely new genus, represented by two newly described species and a third Unconfirmed Candidate Species. Our results revealed a high diversity of dugesiid species in this relatively small region. It is concluded that the morphological features used by taxonomists in comparative studies of dugesiid flatworms generally result in reliable identifications and delineations of species taxa, except in the case of cryptic species.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1111/zoj.12077},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12077/abstract},
	author = {Ronald Sluys and Eduard Sol{\`a} and Gritzalis, Konstantinos and Miquel Vila-Farr{\'e} and Mateos, Eduardo and Marta Riutort}
}
@article {774,
	title = {Diversity of introduced terrestrial flatworms in the Iberian Peninsula: a cautionary tale},
	journal = {PeerJ},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2014},
	month = {06/2014},
	chapter = {e430},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.430},
	author = {Marta {\'A}lvarez-Presas and Mateos, Eduardo and {\`A}ngels Tud{\'o} and Hugh D. Jones and Marta Riutort}
}
