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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Girardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombia |
| Author: | Brusa, Francisco Negrete, Lisandro Herrera-Martinez, Yimy Herrando-Perez, Salvador |
| Citation: | Check List, 2012; 8(2):276-279 |
| Publisher: | Check List |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| ISSN: | 1809-127X |
| School/Discipline: | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Francisco Brusa, Lisandro Negrete, Yimy Herrera-Martínez and Salvador Herrando-Pérez |
| Abstract: | We revise the Neotropical distrubtion of Girardia festae (Platyhelminthes, Dugesiidae) following the new record in a Columbian high-altitude lake, G. festae is a freshwater planarian known mainly in the Andean Cordillera from Venezuela to Argentina. The species' key reproductive features include: ventral testes, bottle-like penis papilla, and sperm ducts joining to the penis bulb latero-dorsally. |
| Rights: | © Check List and Authors |
| Description (link): | http://www.checklist.org.br/archive?vol=8&num=2 |
| Appears in Collections: | Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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