Dugesia sicula
Dugesia sicula is a species of dugesiid triclad that lives in freshwater bodies of the Mediterranean Basin, where it is widely distributed. At least it has been reported from Sicily,[1] Elba and Mallorca,[2] Eivissa,[3] Sardinia,[4] Algeria,[5] Tunisia,[6] Morocco[7] and Crete.[8]
Morphology
D. sicula individuals have an asymmetrical penis papilla, with a diaphragm at the base, separating the seminal vesicle from the ejacultory duct. This duct is ventral and it opens subterminally. The seminal vesicle is wrapped by a thin layer of bulbar muscles. The penis papilla is weakly muscular and more parenchymatic.[8]
Reproduction
D. sicula is known to reproduce sexual and asexually.[1]
Phylogeny
D. sicula position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009:[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lepori, N.G., 1948. Descrizione di Dugesia sicula, nuova sp. di Triclade d'acqua dolce dei dintorni di Catania. Arch. Zool. Ital. 33: 461–472
- ↑ Benazzi, M. (1961): "Les planaires des ïles tyrrhéniennes et leur differenciation raciale, cytologique et génétique". Le peuplement des ïles mediterranéennes et le problème de l'insularité, (ed. CNRS, Paris), pp. 103-112.
- ↑ Ribas M., Pala M., Vacca R. A., Riutort M., Baguñà J. "Taxonomical status of the Western Mediterranean asexual populations of the Dugesia (D) gonocephala group: Morphological, Karyological and Biochemical data". Fortschr. Zool. 36: 129-137 (1988)
- ↑ Stocchino et al., 2005 G.A. Stocchino, G. Corso, R. Manconi, S. Casu and M. Pala, "Endemic freshwater planarians of Sardinia: Redescription of Dugesia hepta (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) with a comparison of the Mediterranean species of the genus", Journal of Natural History 39 (2005), pp. 1947–1960.
- ↑ Vries, E D. J. (1988). A synopsis of the nominal species of the subgenus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Paludicola) from Africa and Madagascar. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 92, 345-382.
- ↑ Charni, M., Harrath, A. H., Sluys, R., Tekaya, S., and Zghal, F. (2004). "The freshwater planarian Dugesia sicula Lepori, 1948 (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) in Tunisia: ecology, karyology, and morphology". Hydrobiologia 517, 161-170.
- ↑ Stocchino, G A., Manconi R., Corso G., Sluys R., Casu S., & Pala M., 2009. "African planarians: morphology and karyology of Dugesia maghrebiana sp. n. (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from Tunisia". Italian Journal of Zoology; 76(1): 83-91
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 De Vries, EJ, 1988. "On the identity and occurrence of Dugesia sicula and D. biblica (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola) in the Mediterranean region". Fortschritte der Zoologie 36: 405–411.
- ↑ Lazaro, E. M., Sluys, R., Pala, M., Stocchino, G. A., Baguna, J., & Riutort, M. (2009). "Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(3), 835-845.
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- D. astrocheta
- D. austroasiatica
- D. bactriana
- D. bakurianica
- D. batuensis
- D. benazzii
- D. bengalensis
- D. biblica
- D. borneana
- D. brigantii
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- D. colapha
- D. congolensis
- D. cretica
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- D. debeauchampi
- D. deharvengi
- D. didiaphragma
- D. ectophysa
- D. elegans
- D. etrusca
- D. golanica
- D. gonocephala
- D. hepta
- D. hymanae
- D. ilvana
- D. indica
- D. indonesiana
- D. iranica
- D. izuensis
- D. japonica
- D. krishnaswamyi
- D. lamottei
- D. lanzai
- D. leclerci
- D. leporii
- D. libanica
- D. liguriensis
- D. lindbergi
- D. machadoi
- D. maghrebiana
- D. malickyi
- D. mertoni
- D. milloti
- D. minotauros
- D. mirabilis
- D. monomyoda
- D. myopa
- D. nannophallus
- D. nansheae
- D. neumanni
- D. notogaea
- D. novaguineana
- D. persica
- D. praecaucasica
- D. ryukyuensis
- D. sagitta
- D. siamana
- D. sicula
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