A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata

Terrestrial planarians found in a plant nursery in Spain in 2012 are described as a new species, Caenoplana decolorata. Dorsally they are mahogany brown with a cream median line. Ventrally they are pastel turquoise fading to brown laterally. Molecular data indicate that they are a member of the genu...

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Autores principales: Mateos, Eduardo, Jones, Hugh D., Riutort, Marta, Álvarez-Presas, Marta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Biodiversity
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10013
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author Mateos, Eduardo
Jones, Hugh D.
Riutort, Marta
Álvarez-Presas, Marta
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description Terrestrial planarians found in a plant nursery in Spain in 2012 are described as a new species, Caenoplana decolorata. Dorsally they are mahogany brown with a cream median line. Ventrally they are pastel turquoise fading to brown laterally. Molecular data indicate that they are a member of the genus Caenoplana, but that they differ from other Caenoplana species found in Europe. One mature specimen has been partially sectioned, and the musculature and copulatory apparatus is described, confirming the generic placement but distinguishing the species from other members of the genus. It is probable that the species originates from Australia.
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spelling pubmed-75346842020-10-14 A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata Mateos, Eduardo Jones, Hugh D. Riutort, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Marta PeerJ Biodiversity Terrestrial planarians found in a plant nursery in Spain in 2012 are described as a new species, Caenoplana decolorata. Dorsally they are mahogany brown with a cream median line. Ventrally they are pastel turquoise fading to brown laterally. Molecular data indicate that they are a member of the genus Caenoplana, but that they differ from other Caenoplana species found in Europe. One mature specimen has been partially sectioned, and the musculature and copulatory apparatus is described, confirming the generic placement but distinguishing the species from other members of the genus. It is probable that the species originates from Australia. PeerJ Inc. 2020-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7534684/ /pubmed/33062435 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10013 Text en © 2020 Mateos et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Mateos, Eduardo
Jones, Hugh D.
Riutort, Marta
Álvarez-Presas, Marta
A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
title A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
title_full A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
title_fullStr A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
title_full_unstemmed A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
title_short A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
title_sort new species of alien terrestrial planarian in spain: caenoplana decolorata
topic Biodiversity
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10013
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