Paraba Carbayo, Álvarez-Presas, Olivares, Marques, Froehlich &amp; Riutort, 2013, gen. n
Creators: name: Carbayo, Fernando
name: Álvarez-Presas, Marta
name: Cĺaudia T. Olivares
name: Marques, Fernando P. L.
name: Eud Óxia M. Froehlich
name: Riutort, Marta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Turbellaria
Tricladida
Geoplanidae
Paraba

description: <i>Genus Paraba gen. n</i> <i>Etymology</i>. In Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language), <i>Paraba</i> means multicoloured; it alludes to the multicoloured dorsum of the type species of the genus. The gender is female. <i>Diagnosis</i>. Geoplaninae with small-to-medium-sized body, 6–80 mm in length; body slender, with margins nearly parallel; dorsum and ventral side slightly convex; eyes monolobulated; pharynx cylindrical; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, generally horizontal; penis papilla protrusible, conical; male atrium not folded; ascending portion of ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to female atrium, joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of female atrium; female atrium female atrium rounded, clothed with an epithelium with multilayered aspect. <i>Distribution</i>. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, Para&amp;nacute;a, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. <i>Type species</i>. <i>Geoplana multicolor</i> von Graff, 1899 <i>Species of</i> Paraba. <i>Paraba caapora</i> (Froehlich, 1958) comb. n. <i>Paraba cassula</i> (E. M. Froehlich, 1955) comb. n. <i>Paraba franciscana</i> (Leal-Zanchet &amp; Carbayo, 2001) * comb. n. <i>Paraba gaucha</i> (Froehlich, 1959) comb. n. <i>Paraba goettei</i> (Schirch, 1929) comb. n. <i>Paraba incognita</i> (Riester, 1938) comb. n. <i>Paraba multicolor</i> (von Graff, 1899) * comb. n. <i>Paraba phocaica</i> (Marcus, 1951) * comb. n. <i>Paraba piriana</i> (Almeida &amp; Carbayo, 2012) comb. n. (in Almeida <i>et al.</i>, 2012) <i>Paraba tingauna</i> (Kishimoto &amp; Carbayo, 2012) comb. n. (in Almeida <i>et al.</i>, 2012) <i>Paraba preta</i> (Riester, 1938) comb. n. <i>Paraba rubidolineata</i> (Baptista &amp; Leal-Zanchet, 2005) * comb. n. <i>Paraba suva</i> (Froehlich, 1959) comb. n. <i>Paraba tapira</i> (Froehlich, 1958) comb. n.
description: Published as part of <i>Fernando Carbayo, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Cĺaudia T. Olivares, Fernando P. L. Marques, Eud Óxia M. Froehlich &amp; Marta Riutort, 2013, Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: proposal of taxonomic actions, pp. 508-528 in Zoologica Scripta 42</i> on pages 523-524, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.399812
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