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

Brusa, Francisco; Negrete, Lisandro Héctor Luis; Herrera Martínez, Yimy; Herrando Pérez, Salvador

Articulo

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http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/37156

http://www.checklist.org.br/getpdf?NGD104-11

issn:1809-127X

Autor

Brusa, Francisco

Negrete, Lisandro Héctor Luis

Herrera Martínez, Yimy

Herrando Pérez, Salvador

Institución

Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)

Resumen

We revise the Neotropical distribution of Girardia festae (Platyhelminthes, Dugesiidae) following a new record in a Colombian 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.

Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo