Dugesia hepta
Dugesia hepta Pala, Casu & Vacca, 1981
- domain Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758
- Bilateria Hatscheck, 1888
- Protostomia Grobben, 1908
- phylum Platyhelminthes Gegenbaur, 1859
- Rhabditophora Ehlers, 1985
- order Tricladida Lang, 1884
- suborder Continenticola Carranza et al., 1998
- superfamily Geoplanoidea Stimpson, 1857
- family Dugesiidae Ball, 1974
- genus Dugesia Girard, 1850
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Description
Genetics
Haploid chromosome number n = 7.
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Ecology and Distribution
Distribution
River basins in northwest Sardinia, Italy, Europe.
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Ecology
This species cohabits in some localities, in rivers in northwest Sardinia, with Dugesia benazzii.
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Evolution
Molecular evidences and morphological characters indicate that Dugesia hepta has recently evolved from Dugesia benazzii.
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Habitat
Freshwater: rivers.
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Life Expectancy
Unknown.
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References
(2009). Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)..
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52, 835-845. Abstract