Simpliciplana
| Simpliciplana | |
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| Illustration of Simpliciplana marginata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Polycladida |
| Suborder: | Cotylea |
| Family: | Anonymidae |
| Genus: | Simpliciplana Kaburaki, 1923[1] |
| Species: | S. marginata
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| Binomial name | |
| Simpliciplana marginata Kaburaki, 1923[1]
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Simpliciplana is a genus of flatworms in the family Anonymidae.[2][3] It is represented by the single species Simpliciplana marginata.[4] The holotype of the species was collected from Tominado Island, Tawi Tawi, Philippines.[1]
Description
Numerous small eyespots form two irregular groups arranged in the tentacular flap, while slightly larger eyespots form an almost circular cluster over the location of the brain.[1]
It is one of the few cotylean genera lacking ventral suckers, along with some members of Cestoplanidae, members of Theamatidae, Amakusaplana, and, possibly, Chromyella.[5]
Taxonomy
Although described in its original description in 1923 as a member of the family Diplopharyngeatidea,[1] in 1984, Fabel included it in the familty Anonymidae, emending the family to include other genera that, like the already included Anonymus, lacked prostatic glands, vesicles, or prostatoid organs.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e Kaburaki, Tokio (1923). "The polyclad turbellarians from the Philippine Islands". Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 100. I (10): 635–649. hdl:10088/21238 – via Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
- ^ Holleman, John J. (1998-10-01). "Two new species of the genus Anonymus from New Zealand (Polycladida, Cotylea)". Hydrobiologia. 383 (1): 61–67. Bibcode:1998HyBio.383...61H. doi:10.1023/A:1003488905205. ISSN 1573-5117.
- ^ a b Faubel, A. (1984). "The Polycladida, Turbellaria. Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part II. The Cotylea". Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 81: 189–259.
- ^ "World list of turbellarian worms - Simpliciplana Kaburaki, 1923". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
- ^ Dittmann, Isabel L.; Cuadrado, Daniel; Aguado, Maria Teresa; Noreña, Carolina; Egger, Bernhard (2019-12-01). "Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19 (4): 585–608. Bibcode:2019ODivE..19..585D. doi:10.1007/s13127-019-00415-1. hdl:10261/247677. ISSN 1618-1077.