Description
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 9 meters (30 feet).Standard Deviation = 25.240 based on 4,508 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Platyzoa
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
()
- Gegenbaur, 1859
- Flatworms
- Subphylum:
Turbellaria
()
- Ehrenberg, 1831
- Planarians
- Infraphylum:
Rhabditophora
()
- (Ehlers, 1985) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Class:
Cestoda
()
- Tapeworms
- Order:
Seriata
()
- Suborder:
Tricladida
()
- Family:
Dugesiidae
()
- Genus:
Dugesia
()
- Specific name:
Dugesia
- (Schmidt, 1861)
- Scientific name: - Dugesia lugubris (Schmidt, 1861)
- Specific name:
Dugesia
- (Schmidt, 1861)
- Genus:
Dugesia
(
- Family:
Dugesiidae
(
- Suborder:
Tricladida
(
- Order:
Seriata
(
- Class:
Cestoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Rhabditophora
(
- Subphylum:
Turbellaria
(
- Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
(
- Infrakingdom:
Platyzoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dugesia
There are approximately 25 species in this genus:
D. agilis · D. antillana · D. benazzii · D. cretica · D. dorotocephala · D. etrusca · D. gonocephala · D. gonocephaloides · D. hepta · D. ilvana · D. japonica · D. lata · D. leporii · D. lugubris · D. maculata · D. mediterranea · D. mexicana · D. minotauros · D. paramensis · D. polychroa · D. sicula · D. subtentaculata · D. tigrina · D. tigrina novangliae · D. titicacana
More Info
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Further Reading
- Freshwater planarians (Turbellaria) of North America. [Washington, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1972. ENG url p. 24, p. 76.
- General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. ENG url p. 10, p. 100, p. 100, p. 101, p. 103, p. 103, p. 103, p. 105, p. 106, p. 106, p. 109, p. 11, p. 110, p. 112, p. 113, p. 119, p. 124, p. 125, p. 126, p. 128, p. 136, p. 147, p. 148, p. 154, p. 159, p. 166, p. 17, p. 18, p. 192, p. 199, p. 22, p. 227, p. 24, p. 26, p. 27, p. 29, p. 35, p. 35, p. 41, p. 42, p. 48, p. 50, p. 54, p. 60, p. 64, p. 65, p. 66, p. 68, p. 69, p. 69, p. 69, p. 70, p. 74, p. 74, p. 79, p. 80, p. 87, p. 91, p. 92, p. 92, p. 92, p. 97, p. 98, p. 98, p. 99, p. 99.
- Genetics today: proceedings of the XI International Congress of Genetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 1963 / edited by S. J. Geerts. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1963-65. ENG url p. 253.
- Principles of embryology / by C.H. Waddington. New York: Macmillan, 1956. ENG url p. 320.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 122.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- NLBIF, Limnodata
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2680115
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-204228
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13741552
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 204228
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 413275
