Obama (genus)
| Obama | |
|---|---|
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| Obama burmeisteri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Turbellaria/Rhabditophora |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Suborder: | Continenticola |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Subfamily: | Geoplaninae |
| Genus: | Obama Carbayo et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| Geoplana fryi Graff, 1899 | |
Obama is a genus of land planarians from South America.
Description
The genus Obama is characterized by having a leaf-shaped body. Most species are about 10 cm long, but some may reach over 20 cm. The hundreds of eyes distributed along the body are of two tipes: monolobulated, which are simple and circular, and trilobulated, which have three lobes. The copulatory apparatus has a permanent conical penis occupying the entire male cavity. It is very similar to the related genus Cratera, the main difference being the absence of trilobulated eyes in the latter.[1]
Etymology
The name Obama is formed by a composition of the Tupi words oba (leaf) and ma (animal).
Species
There are 33 species assigned to the genus Obama:
- Obama apeva (Froehlich, 1959)
- Obama applanata (Graff, 1899)
- Obama anthropophila Amaral, Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2015
- Obama argus (Graff, 1899)
- Obama assu (Froehlich, 1959)
- Obama baptistae (Leal-Zanchet & Oliveira, 2012)
- Obama braunsi (Graff, 1899)
- Obama burmeisteri (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
- Obama carbayoi (Oliveira & Leal-Zanchet, 2012)
- Obama carinata (Riester, 1938)
- Obama carrierei (Graff, 1897)
- Obama catharina (Hyman, 1957)
- Obama decidualis Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2015
- Obama dictyonota (Riester, 1938)
- Obama divae (Marcus, 1951)
- Obama eudoxiae (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990)
- Obama eudoximariae (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990)
- Obama evelinae (Marcus, 1951)
- Obama ferussaci (Graff, 1897)
- Obama ficki (Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 1990)
- Obama fryi (Graff, 1899)
- Obama glieschi (Froehlich, 1959)
- Obama itatiayana (Schirch, 1929)
- Obama josefi (Carbayo & Leal-Zanchet, 2001)
- Obama ladislavii (Graff, 1899)
- Obama livia (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Obama marmorata (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
- Obama metzi (Graff, 1899)
- Obama poca (Froehlich, 1958)
- Obama polyophthalma (Graff, 1899)
- Obama riesteri (Froehlich, 1955)
- Obama rufiventris (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
- Obama ruiva (E. M. Froehlich, 1972)
- Obama schubarti (Froehlich, 1958)
- Obama trigueira (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
References
- ↑ Carbayo, F.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Olivares, C. U. T.; Marques, F. P. L.; Froehlich, E. X. M.; Riutort, M. (2013). "Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: Proposal of taxonomic actions". Zoologica Scripta 42 (5): 508. doi:10.1111/zsc.12019.