Myoplana, 2023

Almeida, Ana Laura, Álvarez-Presas, Marta & Carbayo, Fernando, 2023, The discovery of new Chilean taxa revolutionizes the systematics of Geoplaninae Neotropical land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (4), pp. 837-898 : 867-868

MYOPLANA ALMEIDA & CARBAYO GEN. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: 0D7F9AA5-342D-45C0-BD60-D4F1D36B098E

Type species: Myoplana Ʋeraluciae Almeida & Carbayo sp. nov.

Diagnosis: Myoplanini with a small-sized, slender body about 25–32 mm in length. Creeping sole wide. Eyes marginal. Sensory pits present. Ventral longitudinal cutaneous musculature divided into two layers, the inner one sunken into the parenchyma and located between the two peripheral nerve plexuses. Thickness of the cutaneous muscle relative to the body height, 15–28%. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Penis papilla small. Common ovovitelline duct dorsal to female atrium. Female genital canal projects anteriorly from the posterior region of the female atrium.

Etymology: Myoplana is composed of the Greek μυς (muscle) and the Latin plana (flat), as a reference to the fact that the flatworm has elaborated muscular systems. The gender is feminine.

Distribution: As for that of the tribe.