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Geoplanidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Geoplanidae Stimpson, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=414975 on 2020-03-06

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Platyhelminthes
order
Tricladida
family
Geoplanidae

Name

Synonyms
Cotyloplanidae
Digonopylidae
Homonyms
Geoplanidae
Common names
Cacing Pipih Darat in Indonesian
Land Planarians in English
Land flatworms in English
Landplanarien in German
Landplatwormen in Dutch
Planarias terrestres in Spanish
Planarie terrestri in Italian
Planárias Terrestres in Portuguese
Plathelminthes terrestres in French
Terrestrial Planarians in English
maalattanat in Finnish
maalattanat in Finnish
หนอนตัวแบนบก in Thai
リクウズムシ科 in Japanese
地渦蟲科 in Chinese
육상플라나리아과 in Korean
Land Planarians in English
Land Planarians in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Baptista, V. A.,Leal-Zanchet, Ana M.,Oliveira, Simone M.: Inventário de planárias terrestres (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) em remanescente de Floresta Estacional Decidual do Sul do Brasil http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1228
  2. Benítez-Álvarez, L.; Escudero, N.; Salces-Ortiz, J.; Rojo, I.; Fernández-Álvarez, F. Á.; Mateos, E.; Carbayo, F.; Fernández, R. (2025). Disentangling the evolutionary history of terrestrial planarians through phylogenomics. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 210: 108371. 10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108371
  3. Campos, L. M.,Baptista, V. A.,Leal-Zanchet, Ana M.,Raffo, J. F.: Spatial and temporal patterns of land flatworm assemblages in Brazilian Araucaria forests http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1237
  4. De Luna, M.; Boll, P. K. (2023). An annotated checklist of terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) from Mexico, with new records of invasive species from a citizen science platform and a new nomen dubium. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5297(4): 518-532. 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.3
  5. Fourcade, Y.; Gladieu, R.; Dupont, L.; Roy, V.; Thévenot, J.; Justine, J.-L. (2025). Co-occurrence patterns of introduced terrestrial flatworms in metropolitan France revealed by citizen science. <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 27(10).
  6. Grau, J. H.,Carbayo, F.: Panorama de la diversidad de planarias terrestres (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) del Chile http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1233
  7. Jones, H. D. (2025). British land flatworms: identification and an update. <em>British Wildlife.</em> 37(1): 29–38.
  8. Kehoma Boll, P.; Luna, M. D. (2025). Diversity of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) in Central America: annotated checklist with new records of native and introduced species from citizen science. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5695(1): 1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5695.1.1
  9. Leal-Zanchet, Ana M.,Baptista, V. A.: Land flatworm community structure in a subtropical deciduous forest in Southern Brazil http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1229
  10. Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria,JULIANA ALVARENGA,ILANA ROSSI,ANA LÚCIA RAMOS SEITENFUS: Two new species of land flatworms and comments on the genus Pasipha Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990 (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1214
  11. Marques, D. I. L.,Antunes, M. B.,Leal-Zanchet, Ana M.: Composi{\c c}ão das comunidades de planárias terrestres (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Terricola) em duas áreas de floresta estacional semidecidual do sul do Brasil http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1255
  12. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  13. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  14. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  15. Song, J.-H.; Carbayo, F. (2024). Present and future of the study on Korean land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae). <em>Zoologia (Curitiba).</em> 41. 10.1590/s1984-4689.v41.e23083
  16. Tsai, Chi-Li,Masaharu Kawakatsu,Lee, Jeng-Di,Ronald Sluys,Gen-Yu Sasaki,Lue, Kuang-Yang,Lin, Hsu-Hong,Wu, Shi-Kuei (2005) A Preliminary Study on Land Planarians of Taiwan http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1278
  17. Vieira, Emerson M.,Fick, Israel A.,Leal-Zanchet, Ana M.: Community structure of land flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Terricola): comparisons between Araucaria and Atlantic forest in Southern Brazil http://continenticola.myspecies.info/node/1273
  18. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  19. WoRMS Editorial Board (2017) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
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