Humbertium

Humbertium
Humbertium diana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Bipaliinae
Genus: Humbertium
Ogren & Sluys, 2001
Type species
Perocephalus ravenalae
von Graff, 1899

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

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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c Solà, E., Sluys, R., Riutort, M., Kawakatsu, M. (18 August 2023). "Molecular phylogenetics facilitates the first historical biogeographic analysis of the hammerhead worms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Bipaliinae), with the description of twelve new species and two new genera". Zootaxa. 5335 (1): 1–77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5335.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.


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