| Schmidtea | |
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| Schmidtea mediterranea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Turbellaria |
| Suborder: | Continenticola |
| Family: | Dugesiidae |
| Genus: | Schmidtea Ball, 1974 |
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Schmidtea is a freshwater planarian genus widely used in regeneration and developmental studies.[2][3]
Until 1991 Schmidtea was considered a Dugesia subgenus, then it was upgraded to the genus rank.[4]