Dugesia subtentaculata explained
Dugesia subtentaculata is a species of planarian that inhabits the freshwater of Southern France, several localities on the Iberian Peninsula (including Catalonia), Mallorca, Morocco[1] and Algeria.[2]
In 1986 De Vries designated a neotype for D. subtentaculata after the original type material was lost. She also synonymized the species D. iberica, described from Mallorca and Iberian Peninsula, with D. subtentaculta. Both the neotype and the holotype are from the surroundings of Montpellier, from a locality where asexual specimens of D. subtentaculata and sexual individuals of D. gonocephala are found living together.
Phylogeny
Dugesia subtentaculata is related to other European Dugesia species. However, its exact phylogenetic position is not known.
Phylogenetic tree obtained by Lázaro and colleagues in 2009:[3]
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Notes and References
- 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1986.tb03565.x. On the taxonomic status of Dugesia gonocephala and Dugesia subtentaculata (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Paludicola). Journal of Zoology. 209. 43. 1986. Vries. Elizabeth J. De.
- Vries . E. J. . A synopsis of the nominal species of the subgenus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Paludicola) from Africa and Madagascar . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01729.x . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 92 . 4 . 345–382 . 1988 .
- Lázaro . E. M. . Sluys . R. . Pala . M. . Stocchino . G. A. . Baguñà . J. . Riutort . M. . 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.022 . Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 52 . 3 . 835–845 . 2009 . 19435604.
