Girardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombia

By

Brusa, Francisco
Negrete, Lisandro
Herrera-Martínez, Yimy
Herrando-Pérez, Salvador

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012-5-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

8

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

276--279

Subjects

Colombia , Dugesiidae , Platyhelminthes , range extension , Tricladida

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/8.2.276

 

Abstract

We revise the Neotropical distribution of Girardia festae (Platyhelminthes, Dugesiidae) following a new record in a Colombian 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.