Timyma, E. M. FROEHLICH, 1978

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 : 892

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:010109AB-79F5-4E6D-909B-08BB1803E589

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7797682

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C49B73-6957-FF97-FC1A-7398B7027173

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Plazi

scientific name

Timyma
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TIMYMA E.M. FROEHLICH, 1978 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species: Timyma juliae E.M. Froehlich, 1978 , designated by E. M. Froehlich (1978).

Diagnosis: Timymini with mouth approximately in midbody. Without parenchymatic longitudinal muscle. Pharyngeal pouch extends posteriorly beyond copulatory apparatus. Outer pharyngeal musculature tripartite, with an outer longitudinal muscle layer, a midcircular and an inner longitudinal muscle layer. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Penis papilla absent. Distal section of male atrium narrowed. Ovovitelline ducts emerge from the ventral aspect of ovaries and subsequently ascend laterally to the female atrium to join dorsally to it. Female genital canal dilated to form an ootype projected from the dorsoposterior aspect of the female atrium. Without adhesive musculoglandular organs. Copulatory apparatus without adenodactyls (as re-diagnosed by Almeida et al., 2021).

Distribution: Regions Coquimbo and Valparaiso, Chile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Order

Tricladida

Family

Geoplanidae

Tribe

Sarcoplanini

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