''Hymanella'' is a genus of

triclad Planarians (triclads) are free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria, order Tricladida, which includes hundreds of species, found in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial habitats.pp 3., "Planarians (the popular name for the group as a whole ...

belonging to the family Planariidae.Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2022). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora
''Hymanella'' Castle, 1941
Accessed 2023-06-24. Species have been found in

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

Etymology

The generic name was given in honor of

Libbie Hyman Libbie Henrietta Hyman (December 6, 1888 – August 3, 1969), was an American zoologist. She wrote numerous works on invertebrate zoology and the widely used ''A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy'' (1922, revised in 1942). Lif ...

, for her contributions to knowledge of American triclads. Hyman additionally had given the suggestion that a new genus be designated for the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

, ''Hymanella reteunova''.Castle, W. A. (1941). The Morphology and Life History of Hymanella retenuova, a New Species of Triclad from New England. ''The American Midland Naturalist'', ''26''(1), 85–97.

Species

There are three species recognized in the genus:

References

Rhabditophora genera Continenticola {{Flatworm-stub