Sarcoplanini is a tribe of
land planarians
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms.
These flatworms are mainly predators of other invertebrates, which they hunt, attack and capture using physical force and the adhesive and digestive proper ...
in the subfamily
Geoplaninae
Geoplaninae is a subfamily of land planarians endemic to the Neotropical region. Members of this family are sometimes referred to as the Neotropical land planarians. However, one species, '' Obama nungara'' has been introduced in Europe.
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Description
The tribe Sarcoplanini includes genera of Geoplaninae that occur west of the Andes. They are characterized by the lack of the typical sensory pits that most land planarians have at the border of the anterior region. Instead of this, they have a series of sensory depressions, which are narrower but wider than sensory pits. Most genera also present a retractor muscle at the anterior region that is anatomically distinct from that found in some genera of the tribe
Geoplanini. The
copulatory apparatus has an extrabulbar prostatic vesicle and musculoglandular organs.
Genera
The tribe Sarcoplanini contains five genera:
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Liana
A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. T ...
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E. M. Froehlich, 1978
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Mapuplana''
Grau, Almeida, Sluys & Carbayo, 2012
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Pichidamas''
Bulnes, Grau & Carbayo, 2018
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Sarcoplana''
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Wallmapuplana''
References
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Geoplanidae