Check List 8(2): 276-279, doi: 10.15560/8.2.276
Girardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombia
Francisco Brusa‡, Lisandro Negrete§, Yimy Herrera-Martínez|, Salvador Herrando-Pérez¶‡ Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina§ Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Brazil| Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Colombia¶ University of Adelaide (Australia) Bioestudios Sagantaidear, Spain
Corresponding author: Francisco Brusa ( fbrusa@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar ) © 2017 Francisco Brusa, Lisandro Negrete, Yimy Herrera-Martínez, Salvador Herrando-Pérez. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Brusa F, Herrera-Martínez Y, Negrete L, Herrando-Pérez S (2012) Girardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombia. Check List 8(2): 276-279. 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.
Keywords
Platyhelminthes; Tricladida; Dugesiidae; range extension; Colombia