Humbertium

Humbertium

Drawing of Humbertium diana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Rhabditophora
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Continenticola
Family:	Geoplanidae
Subfamily:	Bipaliinae
Genus:	Humbertium Ogren & Sluys, 2001
Type species
Perocephalus ravenalae von Graff, 1899

Humbertium is a genus of land planarians of the subfamily Bipaliinae (hammerhead flatworms).

Description

Species of Humbertium are characterized by the presence of a well developed penis papilla in the copulatory apparatus, similar to the one in Bipalium, but with the ovovitelloducts entering the female atrium anteriorly and not posteriorly as in Bipalium.^[1]

Etymology

The genus Humbertium is named after the Swiss naturalist Aloïs Humbert who described several species from Sri Lanka that are now classified in the genus.^[1]

Species

The genus Humbertium contains the following species:^[1]

Humbertium ceres (Moseley, 1875)
Humbertium core (de Beauchamp, 1930)
Humbertium depressum (Ritter-Záhony, 1905)
Humbertium diana (Humbert, 1862)
Humbertium dodabettae (de Beauchamp, 1930)
Humbertium ferrugineum (von Graff, 1899)
Humbertium ferruginoideum (Sabussowa, 1925)
Humbertium girardi (von Graff, 1899)
Humbertium kelleri (von Graff, 1899)
Humbertium longicanale (Sabussowa, 1925)
Humbertium palnisium (de Beauchamp, 1930)
Humbertium penangense (Kawakatsu, 1986)
Humbertium penrissenense (de Beauchamp, 1925)
Humbertium phebe (Humbert, 1862)
Humbertium proserpina (Humbert, 1862)
Humbertium pseudophallicum (de Beauchamp, 1925)
Humbertium ravenalae (von Graff, 1899)
Humbertium sikorai (von Graff, 1899)
Humbertium subboreale (Sabussowa, 1925)
Humbertium umbrinum (Geba, 1909)
Humbertium voigti (von Graff, 1899)
Humbertium woodworthi (von Graff, 1899)

References

1 2 3 Ogren, R. E.; Sluys, R. (2001). "The genus Humbertium gen. nov., a new taxon of the land planarian family Bipaliidae (Tricladida, Terricola)". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 131 (1): 201–204.

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