Diversibipalium

Diversibipalium is a genus of land planarians of the subfamily Bipaliinae (hammerhead flatworms). It was erected to include species lacking sufficient morphological information to allow them to be classified in the appropriate genus.[1][2]

Diversibipalium
Diversibipalium multilineatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Bipaliinae
Genus: Diversibipalium
Kawakatsu, Ogren, Froehlich & Sasaki, 2002

Taxonomy

During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, many land planarian species were described based solely on external characters. Currently, the genera of land planarians are highly based on their internal anatomy, especially the anatomy of the copulatory apparatus. As a result, species with old descriptions that were never redescribed, so that their internal anatomy remains unknown, cannot be assigned to the correct genus. Thus, the genus Diversibipalium was created to temporarily accommodate species of the subfamily Bipaliinae whose anatomy of the copulatory apparatus is still unknown.[1]

Species

The genus Diversibipalium currently contains the following species:

  • Diversibipalium andrewsi (Whitehouse, 1919)
  • Diversibipalium bleekeri (Graff, 1898)
  • Diversibipalium boehmigi (Müller, 1902)
  • Diversibipalium brauni (Mell, 1903)
  • Diversibipalium brunneum (Whitehouse, 1919)
  • Diversibipalium cantori (Wright, 1860)
  • Diversibipalium catenatum (Graff, 1898)
  • Diversibipalium claparedei (Graff, 1898)
  • Diversibipalium claviforme (Loman, 1890)
  • Diversibipalium delicatum (Whitehouse, 1914)
  • Diversibipalium dendrophilum Schmarda, 1859
  • Diversibipalium dihangense (Whitehouse, 1914)
  • Diversibipalium engeli Hartog, 1968
  • Diversibipalium expeditionis (Loman, 1895)
  • Diversibipalium falcatum (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium ferudpoorense (Wright, 1860)
  • Diversibipalium flowei (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium fuligineum (Geba, 1909)
  • Diversibipalium fuscocephalum (Kaburaki, 1922)
  • Diversibipalium gebai (Geba, 1909)
  • Diversibipalium giganteum (Whitehouse, 1914)
  • Diversibipalium grandidieri Mell, 1903
  • Diversibipalium haasei (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium hasseltii (Loman, 1890)
  • Diversibipalium indicum (Whitehouse, 1919)
  • Diversibipalium isabellinum (Geba, 1909)
  • Diversibipalium jalorense (Laidlaw, 1903)
  • Diversibipalium jansei (Muller, 1907)
  • Diversibipalium keshavi (Saxena, 1957)
  • Diversibipalium kirckpatricki (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium koreense (Frieb, 1923)
  • Diversibipalium kuhlii (Loman, 1890)
  • Diversibipalium longitudinalis (de Beauchamp, 1933)
  • Diversibipalium lunatum (Gray, 1831)
  • Diversibipalium maculatum (Stimpson, 1857)
  • Diversibipalium madagascarense (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium marenzelleri (Mell, 1903)
  • Diversibipalium megacephalum (Müller, 1902)
  • Diversibipalium molle Graff, 1899
  • Diversibipalium multilineatum (Makino & Shirasawa, 1983)
  • Diversibipalium murinum (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium natunense (Meixner, 1906)
  • Diversibipalium negritorum (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium nigrilumbe (Loman, 1890)
  • Diversibipalium olivaceps (Geba, 1909)
  • Diversibipalium pictum (Geba, 1909)
  • Diversibipalium quadricinctum Loman, 1890
  • Diversibipalium rauchi (Graff, 1898)
  • Diversibipalium richtersi (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium ridleyi (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium roonwali (Ramakrishna & Chauhan, 1962)
  • Diversibipalium rotungense (Whitehouse, 1914)
  • Diversibipalium salvini (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium sarasini (Müller, 1907)
  • Diversibipalium sexcinctum (Loman, 1890)
  • Diversibipalium shipleyi (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium solmsi (Graff, 1898)
  • Diversibipalium sordidum (Whitehouse, 1914)
  • Diversibipalium splendens (Whitehouse, 1919)
  • Diversibipalium steindachneri (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium stimpsoni (Diesing, 1862)
  • Diversibipalium sumatrense (Loman, 1883)
  • Diversibipalium superbum (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium sylvestre Whitehouse, 1919
  • Diversibipalium tamatavense (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium tau (Mell, 1903)
  • Diversibipalium tennenti (Diesing, 1862)
  • Diversibipalium transversefasciatum (Müller, 1907)
  • Diversibipalium tripartitum (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium unicolor (Moseley, 1877)
  • Diversibipalium vinosum (Kaburaki, 1925)
  • Diversibipalium virchowi (Graff, 1899)
  • Diversibipalium virgatum (Stimpson, 1857)
  • Diversibipalium vittatum (Loman, 1888)
  • Diversibipalium weberi (Loman, 1890)
  • Diversibipalium whitehousei (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1987)
  • Diversibipalium wrighti (Graff, 1899)

References

  1. Kawakatsu, M.; Ogren, R. E.; Froehlich, E. M.; Sasaki, G.-Y. (2002). "Additions and corrections of the previous land planarian indices of the world (Turbellaria, Seriata, Tricladida, Terricola) – 10". The Bulletin of Fuji Women's University. Series II. 40: 162–177.
  2. Justine, Jean-Lou; Winsor, Leigh; Gey, Delphine; Gros, Pierre; Thévenot, Jessica (2018). "Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories". PeerJ. 6: e4672. doi:10.7717/peerj.4672. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5969052. PMID 29844951.
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