Beauchampius
| Beauchampius | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Family: | Geoplanidae |
| Tribe: | Pelmatoplaninini |
| Genus: | Beauchampius Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1991 |
| Type species | |
| Pelmatoplana trimeni Graff, 1899
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Beauchampius is a genus of land planarians in the tribe Pelmatoplaninini.
Description
The genus Beauchampius includes planarians with weak cutaneous longitudinal musculature and strong parenchymal musculature forming a ring zone. The copulatory apparatus has a well-developed conical penis papilla and two female ducts opening into the genital atrium, one from the ventral female canal and other from the dorsal diverticulum that in some cases forms a seminal bursa.[1]
Etymology
The genus Beauchampius was named in honor of Paul Marais de Beauchamp, who studied land planarians for more than 60 years.
Species
The genus Beauchampius includes the following species:
- Beauchampius bangoianus (de Beauchamp, 1939)
- Beauchampius coonoorensis (de Beauchamp, 1930)
- Beauchampius crassus (de Beauchamp, 1939)
- Beauchampius dawydoffi (de Beauchamp, 1939)
- Beauchampius indosinicus (de Beauchamp, 1939)
- Beauchampius nilgiriensis (Whitehouse, 1919)
- Beauchampius sarasinorum (Graff, 1899)
- Beauchampius sondaica (Loman, 1890)
- Beauchampius trimeni (Graff, 1899)
References
- ^ Ogren, R. E.; Kawakatsu, M. (1991). "Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part II: Caenoplaninae and Pelmatoplaninae". Bulletin of Fujis Women's College. 29: 35–58.
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