Neppia

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Genus of flatworms

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::summary Genus of flatworms ::

| taxon = Neppia | authority = Ball, 1974 | subdivision = see text

Neppia is a genus of dugesiid triclad that is found in South America, Subantarctic region, Africa, Tasmania and New Zealand.

Until 1974 Neppia was considered a subgenus of Dugesia.

Phylogeny and taxonomy

Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008: |label1=Dugesiidae |1={{Clade |1=Girardia |2={{Clade |1=Neppia |2={{Clade |1=Cura |2={{Clade |1=Schmidtea |2=Dugesia

Species

References

References

  1. *Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 '' [http://devbio.umesci.maine.edu/styler/turbellaria/turbella.php Database]'' {{webarchive. link. (2012-02-04)
  2. (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus ''Dugesia'' (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola)". Journal of Zoology.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. (2008). "Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

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