Girardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombia

dc.contributor.authorBrusa, Franciscoen
dc.contributor.authorNegrete, Lisandroen
dc.contributor.authorHerrera-Martinez, Yimyen
dc.contributor.authorHerrando-Perez, Salvadoren
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciencesen
dc.date.issued2012en
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityFrancisco Brusa, Lisandro Negrete, Yimy Herrera-Martínez and Salvador Herrando-Pérezen
dc.description.urihttp://www.checklist.org.br/archive?vol=8&num=2en
dc.identifier.citationCheck List, 2012; 8(2):276-279en
dc.identifier.issn1809-127Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/74172
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCheck Listen
dc.rights© Check List and Authorsen
dc.titleGirardia festae (Borelli, 1898) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae): distribution extension in a high-altitude lake from Colombiaen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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