Schmidtea Ball, 1974

Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, 2018, 80 years of research on planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from Sardinia, Italy: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 4532 (4), pp. 539-552 : 542

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Genus Schmidtea Ball, 1974 View in CoL

The genus Schmidtea comprises only four species viz. S. lugubris ( Schmidt, 1861) , S. polychroa ( Schmidt, 1861) , S. nova Benazzi & Puccinelli, 1973, and S. mediterranea Benazzi, Baguña, Ballester, Puccinelli & Del Papa, 1975 . All of these species are distinguishable on the basis of karyological and morphological characteristics, while they reproduce sexually by amphimixis or gynogenesis, except S. mediterranea , which shows both sexual and asexual reproduction modes ( Benazzi et al., 1975; Benazzi & Benazzi Lentati, 1976; Lazaro et al., 2011).

References

Benazzi, M. & Puccinelli, I. (1973) A Robertsonian translocation in the freshwater triclad Dugesia lugubris: karyometric analysis and evolutionary inferences. Chromosoma, 40, 193 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00321464

Benazzi, M., Baguna, J., Ballester, R., Puccinelli, I. & Del Papa, R. (1975) Further contribution to the taxonomy of the Dugesia lugubris-polychroa group with description of Dugesia mediterranea n. sp. (Tricladida, Paludicola). Bollettino di Zoologia, 42 (1), 81 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 11250007509430132

Benazzi, M. & Benazzi Lentati, G. (1976) Platyhelminthes. In: John, B. (Ed.), Animal cytogenetics. Vol. 1. Gebruder Borntraeger, Berlin-Stuttgart, pp. 1 - 182.

Lazaro, E. M., Harrath, A. H., Stocchino, G. A., Pala, M., Baguna, J. & Riutort, M. (2011) Schmidtea mediterranea phylogeography: an old species surviving on a few Mediterranean islands? BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11, 274. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 11 - 274

Schmidt, O. (1861) Ueber Planaria torva Autorum. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 11, 89 - 94.