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Dugesiidae 
Schmidtea mediterranea Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Platyhelminthes Class: Turbellaria Order: Tricladida Suborder: Continenticola Family: Dugesiidae
Ball, 1974Dugesiidae is a family of freshwater Tricladida distributed worldwide (except Antarctica). According to molecular analyses, Dugesiidae is the sister group of land planarians.[1][2]
Genera
Eleven Dugesiidae genera are known[3]:
- Bopsula
- Cura
- Dugesia
- Eviella
- Girardia
- Neppia
- Reynoldsonia
- Romankenkius
- Schmidtea
- Spathula
- Weissius
References
- ^ Carranza, S, Littlewood DT, Clough KA, Ruiz-Trillo I, Baguñà J, Riutort M. 1998. "A robust molecular phylogeny of the Tricladida (Platyhelminthes: Seriata) with a discussion on morphological synapomorphies". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 265(1396):631-640.
- ^ Álavarez-Presas, M., Baguñà, J., Riutort, M. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): from freshwater to land and back. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47:555-568.
- ^ Sluys, R., Kawakatsu, M., Riutort, M. & Baguñà, J. 2009. "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History, vol. 43, 1763-1777 pp.
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