Barreirana Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990

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Genus Barreirana Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990

Emended diagnosis. Geoplaninae with small-sized body, 8–22 mm in length, body subcylindrical, slender with nearly parallel margins; dorsal colour pattern with transverse bands; eyes monolobulated, distributed on nearly all dorsum; pharynx cylindrical; prostatic vesicle intrabulbar, narrow; penis papilla protrusible, large conical, nearly horizontal; male atrium not folded; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to the female atrium, joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorsoanteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of the female atrium; female atrium small, funnel-shaped.

Distribution. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, in Brazil.

Type species. Geoplana barreirana Riester, 1938 ; designated by Ogren & Kawakatsu (1990)

Species of Barreirana .

Barreirana barreirana ( Riester, 1938) comb. n. Barreirana zebroides ( Riester, 1938) comb. n.