Luteostriata ernesti is a species of Brazilian land planarian in the subfamily Geoplaninae.[1]

Description

Luteostriata ernesti is a medium to small land planarian, reaching up to 70 millimetres (2.8 in) in length when crawling. The dorsal color is light-yellow with five dark longitudinal stripes: one median, two paramedian and two lateral. The anterior end has a darker, often orange tinge and the ventral side is yellowish white.[1]

Etymology

The specific epithet ernesti honors the zoologist Ernst Marcus, who first described the species, but misidentified it as Geoplana marginata Schultze & Müller, 1858.[1]

Distribution

Luteostrata ernesti is found in Brazil, from São Paulo to Paraná, in areas of Araucaria moist forest, Subtropical Atlantic forest and Seasonal forests.[2] It occurs in the São Paulo Botanical Garden.[1] Populations found in the São Francisco de Paula National Forest in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, originally considered conspecific with L. ernesti, are now considered a separate species, L. dissimilis.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria; Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria (2006). "A species complex in the genus Notogynaphallia Ogren and Kawakatsu (Platyhelminthes : Tricladida : Terricola) with a taxonomic revision of homonyms of Geoplana marginata Schultze & Müller and a reinterpretation of Notogynaphallia caissara (Froehlich) anatomy". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 136 (1): 81–100.
  2. ^ Carbayo, Fernando; Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria (2008). "Estado do conhecimento dos macroturbelários (Platyhelminthes) do Brasil". Biota Neotropica (in Portuguese). 8 (4): 177–197. doi:10.1590/S1676-06032008000400018. ISSN 1676-0603.Open access icon
  3. ^ Iturralde, Giuly G.; Allgayer, Heloísa; Valiati, Victor H.; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2023). "A new species of land planarian split off from Luteostriata ernesti (Leal-Zanchet & Froehlich, 2006) based on an integrative approach". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 58 (3): 649–663. Bibcode:2023SNFE...58..649I. doi:10.1080/01650521.2022.2113853.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luteostriata_ernesti
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