MYOPLANINI 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 : 867

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:010109AB-79F5-4E6D-909B-08BB1803E589
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7814065
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C49B73-697E-FFBE-FCF7-7383B15D729B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	MYOPLANINI ALMEIDA & CARBAYO
status	trib. nov.

Treatment

MYOPLANINI ALMEIDA & CARBAYO TRIB. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: 92DB3E7F-3F9C-47FE-B68A-83FDADA3A19A

Diagnosis: Geoplaninae with the ventral peripheral nervous plexus divided into two plexuses. With a transneural parenchymal muscle, this consisting of diagonal fibres. Inner pharyngeal musculature consisting of four muscle layers.

Type genus: Myoplana Almeida & Carbayo gen. nov. Myoplanini comprises only the genus Myoplana .

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

Distribution: Región de la Araucanía, Chile.