Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877

Suárez, Daniel, Pedrianes, Juan Ramón & Andújar, Carmelo, 2022, DNA barcoding reveals new records of invasive terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in the Macaronesian region, Zootaxa 5129 (3), pp. 447-450 : 448

Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877

Material examined: PORTUGAL: Madeira: Faial , 32.793609°N, - 16.848819°W, 20 m, 7.IX.2019, 1 ex. (GenBank accession number OM 019322 ), C. Andújar leg., found in a soil sample near a beach .

This species is native to Australia but has been introduced to New Zealand, the United States, Argentina, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain, including the Balearic and Canary archipelagos ( Álvarez-Presas et al. 2014; Breugelmans et al. 2012; Luis-Negrete et al. 2011; Suárez et al. 2018). Here we provide the first record from Madeira. Álvarez-Presas et al. (2014) found that C. coerulea was subdivided in three main clades. Our specimen from Madeira matches to a clade including sequences from Australia, Catalonia and the Canary Islands ( Spain) ( Figure 1B ).

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FIGURE 1. Maximum-likelihood tree of invasive terrestrial flatworms, based on COI sequences. Bootstrap values are presented only for main clades. Countries are indicated after GenBank accession number. Red: specimens sequenced in this study. A. Caenoplana coerulea tree. B. Endeavouria septemlineata tree. C. Obama nungara tree.