Biology:Paraba

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Short description: Genus of flatworms

Paraba
Paraba multicolor.jpg
Paraba multicolor
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Geoplaninae
Genus: Paraba
Carbayo et al., 2013
Type species
Geoplana multicolor
Graff, 1899

Paraba is a genus of land planarians from South America.

Description

Species of the genus Paraba have a slender body with nearly parallel margins while creeping. The largest specimens may reach about 8 cm in length. Both sides of the body are slightly convex. The pharynx is cylindrical and the prostatic vesicle is extrabulbar. The copulatory apparatus has a permanent, protrusible, conical penis occupying the entire male cavity, which is unfolded, and the female cavity is rounded and filled with a multilayered epithelium.[1]

Etymology

Paraba means multicolored in the Tupi language and alludes to the name of the type-species, Paraba multicolor.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Paraba:

  • Paraba aurantia Marques & Leal-Zanchet, 2022[2]
  • Paraba bresslaui (Schirch, 1929)[3]
  • Paraba caapora (Froehlich, 1958)
  • Paraba cassula (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
  • Paraba franciscana (Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001)
  • Paraba gaucha (Froehlich, 1959)
  • Paraba goettei (Schirch, 1929)
  • Paraba hortulana Rossi & Leal-Zanchet, 2023[4]
  • Paraba iguassuensis Peres, Rossi & Leal-Zanchet, 2020[5]
  • Paraba incognita (Riester, 1938)
  • Paraba multicolor (Graff, 1899)
  • Paraba pankaru Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2019
  • Paraba phocaica (Marcus, 1951)
  • Paraba piriana (Almeida & Carbayo, 2012)
  • Paraba preta (Riester, 1938)
  • Paraba pseudogaucha Rossi & Leal-Zanchet, 2023[4]
  • Paraba rubidolineata (Baptista & Leal-Zanchet, 2005)
  • Paraba smaragdina Rossi, Negrete & Leal-Zanchet, 2020[5]
  • Paraba suva (Froehlich, 1959)
  • Paraba tapira (Froehlich, 1958)
  • Paraba tata Bolonhezi, Lago-Barcia & Carbayo, 2020
  • Paraba tingauna (Kishimoto & Carbayo, 2012)
  • Paraba viricornuta Rossi & Leal-Zanchet, 2023[4]


References

  1. 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. 
  2. Marques, Alessandro Damasceno; Hartmann, Alef; Valiati, Victor Hugo; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (9 November 2022). "Two new land planarian species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) from the Cerrado biome in southwestern Brazil". Zootaxa 5205 (4): 301–330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5205.4.1. ISSN 1175-5326. 
  3. Silva, Marcos Santos; Carbayo, Fernando (10 February 2020). "X-ray microcomputed tomography applied to the taxonomic study of rare material: redescriptions of seven of Schirch's Brazilian species of land planarians (Geoplanidae, Platyhelminthes)". ZooKeys (910): 1–42. doi:10.3897/zookeys.910.39486. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 32099514. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Rossi, Ilana; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2023). "Hidden diversity under stripes: three new species of land flatworms of the genus Paraba (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from the southern Atlantic forest". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. doi:10.1080/01650521.2023.2278220. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Rossi, Ilana; Peres, Jéssica Cardoso; Negrete, Lisandro; Leal-Zanchet, Ana (September 2020). "Increasing the species diversity of the genus Paraba (Platyhelminthes) with the description of two new species from the southern atlantic forest". Zoologischer Anzeiger 288: 11–23. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2020.06.003. ISSN 0044-5231. 

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