Hammerhead worms everywhere? Modelling the invasion of bipaliin flatworms in a changing climate

Y Fourcade, L Winsor, JL Justine - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Alien species introduced into new ecosystems occasionally predate upon or
outcompete native species. Land planarians (Geoplanidae) are a family of carnivorous …

Trying to take over the world: Potential distribution of Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae), the Neotropical land planarian that has reached Europe

L Negrete, M Lenguas Francavilla… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Obama nungara Carbayo, Álvarez‐Presas, Jones, & Riutort, 2016 is a land planarian
(Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) native to southern South America, which has recently …

Gut content metabarcoding and citizen science reveal the earthworm prey of the exotic terrestrial flatworm, Obama nungara

V Roy, M Ventura, Y Fourcade, JL Justine… - European Journal of Soil …, 2022 - Elsevier
The metabarcoding of digestive contents is a powerful approach to study the diet of newly
introduced predatory species, and therefore to forecast their potential impact on native …

The discovery of new Chilean taxa revolutionizes the systematics of Geoplaninae Neotropical land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida)

AL Almeida, M Álvarez-Presas… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Two subfamilies of land planarians (Geoplanidae) are endemic to the Neotropical region,
namely Geoplaninae (with 29 genera and 346 nominal species, most of which are from …

Integrative taxonomy of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from the Andean‐Patagonian Forests from Argentina and Chile, with the erection of two new …

L Negrete, M Álvarez‐Presas… - Journal of Zoological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Our knowledge about the diversity of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from
the Andean‐Patagonian Forests is scarce compared with other forested biomes. These cold …

When looks can be deceiving: a new cryptic land planarian species of Choeradoplana Graff, 1896 (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from Argentina

L Negrete, A Zivano, ML Francavilla… - Systematics and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
A new species of the genus Choeradoplana found in the east-central region of Argentina is
herein described, Choeradoplana malaria sp. nov. This new entity shows a striking similarity …

Can morphometrics help us predict the diet of land planarians?

PK Boll, AM Leal-Zanchet - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The use of morphometrics for taxonomy and to predict the diet of organisms based on
related species has been applied to several groups. In this study, for the first time, we used …

Integrative taxonomy increases biodiversity knowledge of Gusana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) with the description of four new Chilean species

AL Almeida, M Álvarez-Presas, L Bolonhezi… - Invertebrate …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
The Chilean land planarian genus Gusana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplaninae)
currently comprises three species that were described in the 19th century. Four new species …

Phylogenetic and morphological study of the genus Potamolithus (Truncatelloidea: Tateidae) in hotspots of diversity at the Paranaense Forest, Argentina, with the …

M de Lucía, ICB Gonçalves, SB dos Santos… - Zoologischer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Atlantic Forest is a highly fragmented biodiversity hotspot, which in Argentina is
represented by the Paranaense Forest, covering a wide area of the province of Misiones. In …

A new genus of land planarian (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) for a new 'blind'species

L Negrete, ML Francavilla… - Systematics and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The morphological and molecular (mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, COI)
characterization of a new species of the subfamily Geoplaninae (Geoplanidae) supports the …