GUSANINI ALMEIDA & CARBAYO, 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 : 859

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7797649
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scientific name	GUSANINI ALMEIDA & CARBAYO
status	trib. nov.

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GUSANINI ALMEIDA & CARBAYO TRIB. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: 9E0939FB-0E21-4209-B514-A52634BD1ED0

Type genus: Gusana E.M. Froehlich, 1978 View in CoL .

Diagnosis: Geoplaninae with a broad and foliaceus body, tapering abruptly to the anterior tip. Anterior tip triangular. Dorsal and ventral longitudinal cutaneous muscle partly sunken into the parenchyma. Sensory pits as a simple invagination or obliquely elongated and internally branched.

Gusanini comprise only the genus Gusana .

Etymology: The name of the tribe is based on the name of its type genus.

Distribution: Regions Biobío and La Araucanía ( Chile).