Imbira, Fernando Carbayo, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Cĺaudia T. Olivares, Fernando P. L. Marques, Eud Óxia M. Froehlich & Marta Riutort, 2013

Fernando Carbayo, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Cĺaudia T. Olivares, Fernando P. L. Marques, Eud Óxia M. Froehlich & Marta Riutort, 2013, Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: proposal of taxonomic actions, Zoologica Scripta 42, pp. 508-528 : 521-522

Genus Imbira , gen. n

Etymology. In Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language), Imbira is a strip of bark peeled off from certain trees; it alludes to the body shape of the species of the genus. The gender is female.

Diagnosis. Geoplaninae with large-sized body, 90– 140 mm in length, body slender, flattened, with margins parallel; eyes monolobulated, marginally arranged along the body; parenchymatic muscle layers of longitudinal fibres, dorsally and ventrally to the intestine, in addition to the three common parenchymatic muscle layers; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, long-branched; penis papilla eversible; male atrium folded; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to the female atrium and joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of the female atrium; female atrium rounded, clothed with an epithelium with multilayered aspect.

Distribution. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, Parańa, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil.

Type species. Notogynaphallia guaiana Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001

Species of Imbira .

Imbira guaiana (Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001) *