Continenticola
| Continenticola | |
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| From upper left: Dugesia subtentaculata, a dugesiid; Dendrocoelum cavaticum, a Dendrocoelidae; Platydemus manokuari, a Geoplanidae; and Polycelis felina, a Planariidae. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Turbellaria |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Suborder: | Continenticola Carranza et al., 1998[1] |
| Superfamilies and families[2] | |
Continenticola is a clade that includes the land planarians (Geoplanidae) and the freshwater triclads (Dendrocoelidae, Dugesiidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae).
Phylogeny
Carranza et al. proposed in 1998, on the basis of molecular evidences, that the families of freshwater and land flatworms must be grouped together in a monophyletic group that they called Continenticola. This grouping was accepted by Ronald Sluys in 2009. Despite the molecular evidences, there are no morphological apomorphies supporting this clade.[2]
Phylogenetic supertree after Sluys et al., 2009:[2]
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References
- ↑ Carranza, S.; Littlewood, D. T.; Clough, K. A.; Ruiz-Trillo, I.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (1998). "A robust molecular phylogeny of the Tricladida (Platyhelminthes: Seriata) with a discussion on morphological synapomorphies". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 265 (1396): 631–640. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0341. PMC 1689013. PMID 9881470.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.