Neppia Explained

Neppia is a genus of dugesiid triclad that is found in South America, Subantarctic region, Africa, Tasmania and New Zealand.^{[1] [2]}

Until 1974 Neppia was considered a subgenus of Dugesia.^[3]

Phylogeny and taxonomy

Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008:^[4]

Species

• Neppia evelinae (Marcus, 1955)
• Neppia falklandica (Westblad, 1952)
• Neppia jeanneli (Beauchamp, 1913)
• Neppia magnibursalis Sluys & Kawakatsu, 2001
• Neppia montana (Nurse, 1950)
• Neppia paeta (Marcus, 1955)
• Neppia tinga (Marcus, 1955)
• Neppia wimbimba (Marcus, 1970)

Notes and References

1. De Vries . E. J. . Sluys . R. . 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04752.x . Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola) . Journal of Zoology . 223 . 1. 103–116. 1991 .
2. Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M. 2001: Contribution to an inventory of the freshwater planarians of Australia and New Zealand (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae), with distribution maps of the species examined. Beaufortia, 51: 163-198
3. Ball, I. R. 1974. A new genus of freshwater triclad from Tasmania with reviews of the related genera Cura and Neppia (Turbellaria, Tricladida). Life Sci. Contr. R. Ont. Mus. No. 99:1-48.
4. Álvarez-Presas . M. . Baguñà . J. . Riutort . M. . 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032 . Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 47 . 2 . 555–568 . 2008 . 18359250.