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Type:	Journal article
Title:	Girardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombia
Author:	Brusa, Francisco Negrete, Lisandro Herrera-Martínez, Yimy Herrando-Pérez, Salvador
Citation:	Check List, 2012; 8(2):276-279
Publisher:	Check List
Issue Date:	2012
ISSN:	1809-127X
School/Discipline:	School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Statement of Responsibility:	Francisco Brusa, Lisandro Negrete, Yimy Herrera-Martínez and Salvador Herrando-Pérez
Abstract:	We revise the Neotropical distrubtion of Girardia festae (Platyhelminthes, Dugesiidae) following the new record in a Columbian 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.
Rights:	© Check List and Authors
RMID:	0020119511
Description (link):	http://www.checklist.org.br/archive?vol=8&num=2
Appears in Collections:	Earth and Environmental Sciences Publications

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