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Issue: Vol. 4450 No. 2: 24 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.10
Page range: 297–300
Abstract views: 226
PDF downloaded: 38

First report of the land planarian Endeavouria septemlineata (Hyman, 1939) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) in French Polynesia

Institut Systématique Évolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 51, 75005 Paris, France
Service de Systématique Moléculaire, UMS 2700, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 26, 75005 Paris, France
133 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge CB1 7BX, United Kingdom
College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Platyhelminthes Tricladida Continenticola Geoplanidae

Abstract

We report the presence of the land planarian Endeavouria septemlineata from Tahiti, French Polynesia, on the basis of a single specimen collected in 2017. Identification of the species was ascertained by external and internal morphology and DNA COI sequence. The finding is of importance for conservation, since this species is a predator of soil animals.

 

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