Pasipha Explained

Pasipha is a genus of land planarians from South America.

Description

Species of the genus Pasipha have a slender and flattened body with parallel margins while creeping. The copulatory apparatus lacks a permanent penis, having a long and highly folded male atrium instead. The prostatic vesicle is located outside the muscular coat of the copulatory apparatus and divided in two portions. The female canal enters the genital antrum ventrally.[1]

Etymology

The name of Pasipha is derived from the specific epithet of the type species, Pasipha pasipha, known as Geoplana pasipha prior to the creation of the genus.[2]

Species

There are 29 species assigned to the genus Pasipha:

Also, there are some species currently considered incertae sedis:

Notes and References

  1. 10.1111/zsc.12019. Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: Proposal of taxonomic actions. Zoologica Scripta. 42. 5. 508. 2013. Carbayo . F. . Álvarez-Presas . M. . Olivares . C. U. T. . Marques . F. P. L. . Froehlich . E. X. M. . Riutort . M. .
  2. Web site: Kawakatsu . Masaharu . Masaharu Kawakatsu . 2009 . A List of Nominal Taxa of Planarians and Nemertean Described by Kawakatsu and His Coauthors . Kawakatsu’s Web Library on Planarians . 32 . PDF.
  3. Amaral . Silvana Vargas . Ribeiro . Giovana Gamino . Valiati . Victor Hugo . Leal-Zanchet . Ana Maria . Body doubles: an integrative taxonomic approach reveals new sibling species of land planarians . Invertebrate Systematics . 32 . 3 . 533 . 2018 . 1445-5226 . 10.1071/IS17046.
  4. Negrete . Lisandro . Brusa . Francisco . Land flatworms of the genus Pasipha (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) in Argentina, with description of three new species . Zootaxa . 4137 . 2 . 2016 . 187–210 . 1175-5334 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.2.2. 11336/54721 . free .
  5. Amaral . Silvana Vargas do . Leal-Zanchet . Ana Maria . Ferreira . Rodrigo Lopes . Two new species of Neotropical land flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) occurring in ferruginous and limestone caves . Zoologischer Anzeiger . 283 . 2019 . 231–241 . 0044-5231 . 10.1016/j.jcz.2019.09.008.
  6. Leal-Zanchet . Ana . Marques . Alessandro . Searching for shelter in a ferruginous cave? A new species of Pasipha from a plateau in the Brazilian savanna (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) . ZooKeys . 776 . 2018 . 13–25 . 1313-2970 . 10.3897/zookeys.776.26308. free . 6072825 .
  7. Marques . Alessandro Damasceno . Hartmann . Alef . Valiati . Victor Hugo . Leal-Zanchet . Ana Maria . Two new land planarian species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) from the Cerrado biome in southwestern Brazil . Zootaxa . 9 November 2022 . 5205 . 4 . 301–330 . 1175-5326 . 1175-5334 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5205.4.1 .
  8. Amaral . Silvana Vargas Do . Leal-Zanchet . Ana Maria . Two new species of Pasipha Ogren & Kawakatsu (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from areas of deciduous forest in southern Brazil . Zootaxa . 4171 . 3 . 2016 . 459 . 1175-5334 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.3.3.
  9. Negrete . Lisandro . Brusa . Francisco . Increasing diversity of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) in the Interior Atlantic Forest with the description of two new species and new records from Argentina . Zootaxa . 4362 . 1 . 2017 . 99 . 1175-5334 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.5.

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