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Microplana mahnerti n. sp., a new Terrestrial Planarian from Jura Mts. (Turbellaria Tricladida Rhynchodemidae)

1977; Natural History Museum of Geneva; Volume: 84; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/bhl.part.91377

ISSN

0035-418X

Autores

Alessandro Minelli,

Tópico(s)

Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Resumo

The Author describes Microplana mahnerti n. sp., from Jura Mts., closely related to M. styriaca Freisling from Austria, from which it differs by possessing a vesicula seminalis and larger eyes.An estimate of the chromosome number is 2" = 10.Microplana sp. from Malta is also recorded.During 1974 and 1975 Dr. V. Mahnert (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genéve) collected several specimens of terrestrial planarians he sent to me for identification.A first specimen was collected on the Island of Malta, near Hagar Qim, under a stone near a tree of Ceratonia siliqua.This finding is of geographical and ecological interest, because of the very few findings we know of terrestrial planarians in the Mediterranean area, i.e.:

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