Dugesia etrusca
Dugesia etrusca Benazzi, 1944
- 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
Languages: English
Ecology and Distribution
Distribution
Endemic species of Tuscan region, Italy, Europe.
Habitat
Freshwater.
Life Expectancy
Unknown.
References
(1998). Repeated DNA elements in planarians of the Dugesia gonocephala group (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida).
Hydrobiologia. 383, 139-146.
(1985). The biogeography of the genus Dugesia (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Paludicola) in the Mediterranean region.
Journal of Biogeography. 12, 509-518.
(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


