Schmidtea mediterranea Benazzi, Baguñà, Ballester & Del Papa, 1975

Schmidtea mediterranea Benazzi et al., 1975 is a freshwater planarian (order Tricladida, suborder Continenticola, phylum Platyhelminthes) that is mostly known to the scientific community for its capacity to regenerate and has become a model organism for the functional analysis of the genes involved in pattern formation.