Gusana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Order: | Tricladida |
Family: | Geoplanidae |
Subfamily: | Geoplaninae |
Tribe: |
Gusanini Almeida & Carbayo, 2023 |
Genus: |
Gusana Froehlich, 1978 |
Type species | |
Geoplana cruciata
von Graff, 1899
|
Gusana is a genus of land planarians found in Chile.
Gusana was defined as land planarians with a broad, leaf-like body that tapers very abruptly anteriorly, giving it a triangular anterior end. The cutaneous musculature, both ventrally and dorsally, is partially sunk into the mesenchyma. The sensory border forms a thick edge around the ventral margin of the anterior end and the sensory pits are internally branched, differently from what occurs in most Neotropical land planarians. The copulatory apparatus has a small intra-antral penis papilla and the female canal enters the genital antrum ventrally. [1]
The genus Gusana currently includes seven species: [2]
Gusana | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Order: | Tricladida |
Family: | Geoplanidae |
Subfamily: | Geoplaninae |
Tribe: |
Gusanini Almeida & Carbayo, 2023 |
Genus: |
Gusana Froehlich, 1978 |
Type species | |
Geoplana cruciata
von Graff, 1899
|
Gusana is a genus of land planarians found in Chile.
Gusana was defined as land planarians with a broad, leaf-like body that tapers very abruptly anteriorly, giving it a triangular anterior end. The cutaneous musculature, both ventrally and dorsally, is partially sunk into the mesenchyma. The sensory border forms a thick edge around the ventral margin of the anterior end and the sensory pits are internally branched, differently from what occurs in most Neotropical land planarians. The copulatory apparatus has a small intra-antral penis papilla and the female canal enters the genital antrum ventrally. [1]
The genus Gusana currently includes seven species: [2]