Humbertium

Humbertium is a genus of land planarians of the subfamily Bipaliinae (hammerhead flatworms).

Humbertium
Humbertium covidum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Bipaliinae
Genus: Humbertium
Ogren & Sluys, 2001
Type species
Perocephalus ravenalae
von Graff, 1899

Description

Species of Humbertium are characterized by the presence of a well developed penis papilla in the copulatory apparatus, similar to the one in Bipalium, but with the ovovitelloducts entering the female atrium anteriorly and not posteriorly as in Bipalium.[1]

Etymology

The genus Humbertium is named after the Swiss naturalist Aloïs Humbert who described several species from Sri Lanka that are now classified in the genus.[1]

Species

The genus Humbertium contains the following species:[2]

References

  1. Ogren, R. E.; Sluys, R. (2001). "The genus Humbertium gen. nov., a new taxon of the land planarian family Bipaliidae (Tricladida, Terricola)". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 131 (1): 201–204.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Humbertium Ogren & Sluys, 2001". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  3. Justine, Jean-Lou; Gastineau, Romain; Gros, Pierre; Gey, Delphine; Ruzzier, Enrico; Charles, Laurent; Winsor, Leigh (2022-02-01). "Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipaliinae): mitochondrial genomes and description of two new species from France, Italy, and Mayotte". PeerJ. PeerJ. 10: e12725. doi:10.7717/peerj.12725. ISSN 2167-8359. open access


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.