''Cura foremanii'' is a species of freshwater

planarian A planarian is one of the many flatworms of the traditional class (biology), class Turbellaria. It usually describes free-living flatworms of the order Tricladida (triclads), although this common name is also used for a wide number of free-li ...

belonging to the family

Dugesiidae Dugesiidae is a family of freshwater planarians distributed worldwide (except Antarctica). The type genus is ''Dugesia ''Dugesia'' (pronounced, /duˈd͡ʒiʒ(i)ə/) is a genus of dugesiid triclads that contains some common representatives ...

.Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2023). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora
''Cura foremanii'' (Girard, 1852)
Accessed 2023-06-24. It is found in freshwater habitats within North America.

Etymology

The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

was given in honor of

Edward R. Foreman Edward R. Foreman (1808–1885) was an American meteorologist. Biography Foreman was born on 1808, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an assistant professor for 12 years at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1848, he was hired as an assistant for ...

.Girard, C. F. (1852)
Description of two new genera and two new species of Planaria
''Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.'' 4: 210-213.

Description

''Cura foremanii'' is about 7–15 millimeters in length, and has a flat, oblong, broad, thick, oval-like shape. Its head is in the shape of a broad triangle with a blunt point. It has unpigmented circular dash-like regions on the side of its auricles; but its general body color ranges from dark brown or gray to black. Its underside is pale, but retains the same hue as its backside.Kenk, R. (1972)
''Freshwater planarians (Turbellaria) of North America''.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It has two eyes; the eyes are a light grey or white with black pigment forming a "pupil".

References

Animals described in 1852 Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard Dugesiidae {{Flatworm-stub