Microplaninae

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Microplaninae
Microplana sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Microplaninae[1]
Pantin, 1953
Genera

see text

Microplaninae is a subfamily of land planarians.

Genera

Eight genera of Microplaninae are known:[1]

  • Amblyplana
  • Diporodemus
  • Geobenazzia
  • Incapora
  • Microplana
  • Othelosoma
  • Pseudartiocotylus
  • Statomicroplana

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic tree including the land planarian subfamilies after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008.[2] Note that Spathula and Romankenkius belong to the Dugesiidae family:

Geoplanoidea

Dugesiidae


Geoplanidae

Bipaliinae





Geoplaninae




Caenoplaninae



Rhynchodeminae






Microplaninae



(Spathula + Romankenkius)






References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Riutort, M.; Baguñà, J. (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669. 
  2. Álvarez-Presas, M.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2008). "Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (2): 555–568. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032. PMID 18359250. 
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