From upper left: Dugesia subtentaculata, a dugesiid; Dendrocoelum cavaticum, a Dendrocoelidae; Platydemus manokwari, a Geoplanidae; and Polycelis felina, a Planariidae.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Order:
Tricladida
Suborder:
Continenticola Carranza et al., 1998[1]
Superfamilies and families[2]
Planarioidea
Planariidae
Dendrocoelidae
Kenkiidae
Geoplanoidea
Dugesiidae
Geoplanidae
Continenticola is a clade that includes the land planarians (Geoplanidae) and the freshwater triclads (Dendrocoelidae, Dugesiidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae).
^Carranza, S.; Littlewood, D. T.; Clough, K. A.; 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. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0341. PMC 1689013. PMID 9881470.
^Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Riutort, M.; Baguñà, J. (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History. 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669.
Continenticola is a clade that includes the land planarians (Geoplanidae) and the freshwater triclads (Dendrocoelidae, Dugesiidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae)...
according to their phylogenetic relationships: Maricola, Cavernicola and Continenticola. Formerly, the Tricladida was split according to their habitat: Maricola...
both land and freshwater planarians within a single suborder called Continenticola, with land planarians forming a single family, Geoplanidae. The following...
"Two new species of freshwater flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Continenticola) from South American caves". Zootaxa. 4092 (1): 107–121. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
(2019). "Two new species of Neotropical land flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) occurring in ferruginous and limestone caves". Zoologischer Anzeiger...
Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2015). "Two new Geoplaninae species (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from Southern Brazil based on an integrative taxonomic approach". Journal...
(2019). "Two new species of Neotropical land flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) occurring in ferruginous and limestone caves". Zoologischer Anzeiger...
Araucaria forests with a key to species of the genus (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola)". ZooKeys (643): 1–32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.11093. ISSN 1313-2970...
(2019). "Two new species of Neotropical land flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) occurring in ferruginous and limestone caves". Zoologischer Anzeiger...
Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2015). "Two new Geoplaninae species (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from Southern Brazil based on an integrative taxonomic approach". Journal...
Araucaria forests with a key to species of the genus (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola)". ZooKeys (643): 1–32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.11093. ISSN 1313-2970...
"The first troglobitic species of freshwater flatworm of the suborder Continenticola (Platyhelminthes) from South America". ZooKeys (470): 1–16. doi:10.3897/zookeys...
Planaria is a genus of planarians in the family Planariidae. Due to its excellent ability to regenerate, species of Planaria has also been used as model...
into the deep of the land planarian genus Choeradoplana (Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) taxonomy". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 18: 187–210...
resembling the type species of the genus in their external aspects (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola). ZooKeys 813: 1-19. doi:10.3897/zookeys.813.29565 v t e...
relationships within the flatworm genus Matuxia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) inferred from molecular data with the description of a southern lineage...
into the deep of the land planarian genus Choeradoplana (Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) taxonomy". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 18: 187–210...
relationships within the flatworm genus Matuxia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) inferred from molecular data with the description of a southern lineage...
into the deep of the land planarian genus Choeradoplana (Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) taxonomy". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 18: 187–210...
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