Kontikia
| Kontikia | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Kontikia ventrolineata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Rhabditophora |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Suborder: | Continenticola |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhynchodeminae |
| Tribe: | Caenoplanini |
| Genus: | Kontikia Froehlich, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Kontikia orana Froehlich, 1955 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Parakontikia Winsor, 1911 | |
Kontikia is a genus of land planarians native from islands in the Indo-Pacific region, but several species have been introduced elsewhere.
Description
The genus Kontikia includes planarians of elongate body, with a creeping sole that occupies one to two thirds of the body with. The mesenchymal musculature includes well-developed longitudinal muscles forming a ring zone around the intestine.[1] The copulatory apparatus may or may not have a distinct penis papilla, depending on the degree of contraction of the reproductive structures.[2] This led to an initial classification of specimens without a distinct penis papilla in another genus, Parakontikia.[3]
Species
The genus Kontikia includes the following species:
- Kontikia andersoni Jones, 1981
- Kontikia ashleyi (Fyfe, 1953)
- Kontikia assimilis (von Graff, 1899)
- Kontikia atrata (Steel, 1887)
- Kontikia bulbosa Sluys, 1983
- Kontikia canaliculata (von Graff, 1899)
- Kontikia chapmani (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1988)
- Kontikia circularis (Fyfe, 1956)
- Kontikia cookiana (Schröder, 1924)
- Kontikia coxii (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888)
- Kontikia cyanea (Fyfe, 1956)
- Kontikia forsterorum (Schröder, 1924)
- Kontikia insularis (Prudhore, 1949)
- Kontikia kenneli (von Graff, 1899)
- Kontikia lyra (Steel, 1901)
- Kontikia marrineri (Dendy, 1911)
- Kontikia melanochroa (Steel, 1901)
- Kontikia nasuta (Loman, 1890)
- Kontikia orana Froehlich, 1955
- Kontikia pelewensis (von Graff, 1899)
- Kontikia quadrilineata (Haslauer-Gamish, 1982)
- Kontikia ranuii (Fyfe, 1953)
- Kontikia renschi (Haslauer-Gamish, 1982)
- Kontikia traversii (Moseley, 1877)
- Kontikia ventrolineata (Dendy, 1892)
- Kontikia whartoni (Gulliver, 1879)
References
- ↑ Ogren, R. E.; Kawakatsu, M. (1991). "Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part II: Caenoplaninae and Pelmatoplaninae". Bulletin of Fujis Women's College. 29: 35–58.
- ↑ Jones, Hugh D.; Johns, Peter M.; Winsor, Leigh (1998). "The proposed synonymy of Parakontikia ventrolineata (Dendy, 1892) and Kontikia mexicana (Hyman, 1939): what is a penis papilla?". Hydrobiologia. 383 (1/3): 91–96. doi:10.1023/A:1003478218873. ISSN 0018-8158.
- ↑ Winsor, L. (1991). "A provisional classification of Australian terrestrial geoplanid flatworms (Tricladida: Terricola: Geoplanidae)". Victorian Naturalist. 109 (2): 42–49.
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