Luteostriata

Luteostriata
Luteostriata graffi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Geoplaninae
Genus: Luteostriata
Carbayo, 2010
Type species
Geoplana muelleri
Diesing, 1861

Luteostriata is a genus of land planarians from Brazil caracterized by a yellow body with dark longitudinal stripes.

Description

The genus Luteostriata is characterized by the presence of a cephalic retractor muscle, which allows those animals to pull their anterior end upwards and backwards. Associated to the muscle are cephalic glands, forming a so-called cephalic musculo-glandular organ in a way similar to the one found in the genera Choeradoplana and Issoca. The copulatory apparatus has an eversible penis, i.e., there is no permanent penis papilla and the penis is formed during copulation by folds in the male cavity which are pushed outwards.[1]

Externally, species in this genus usually have a yellow to light brown dorsal color with a series of longitudinal dark stripes, hence the name Luteostriata, from Latin luteus (saffron yellow) + striatus (striped). The anterior end is also usually marked by an orange tinge that posteriorly gradually fades into the yellow color of the dorsum.[2]

Species

There are nine described species in the genus Luteostriata:

Taxonomic history

Dorsal color pattern of all currently described species of Luteostriata

The first species of Luteostriata was described in 1857 by Max Schultze and Fritz Müller as a Brazilian yellow planarian with a broad black longitudinal stripe in the middle of the back and a narrow deep orange stripe on each side of it.[3] They identified it as Planaria elegans, a species described by Darwin, and put it in their new genus Geoplana. Later, in 1861, Karl Moriz Diesing noticed that the description of Schultze and Müller's species did not match with that of Darwin's and renamed it Geoplana mülleri.[4]

In 1899, Ludwig von Graff published his famous monography on land planarians[5] and described some specimens of yellow land planarians with five or seven black stripes that were sent to him from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He identified them as Geoplana marginata, a species described by Schultze and Müller in the same publication in which they misidentified Geoplana elegans.[3] Graff ended up making a similar mistake, as Schultze and Müller's Geoplana marginata was a black species with yellow stripes while Graff's was yellow with black stripes. Specimens with seven stripes instead of only five were considered a variety of Geoplana marginata and named Geoplana marginata var. abundans because of the "abundant" number of stripes.[5]

In the following decades, several authors, such as Albert Riester and Ernst Marcus, continued to identify most Brazilian yellow planarians with 5 or 7 dark longitudinal stripes as Geoplana marginata.[6][7] In 1955, Eudóxia Maria Froehlich noticed that Riester's species was different from the specimens analyzed by Graff and Marcus and renamed Riester's material as Geoplana caissara.[8] In 1959, Claudio Gilberto Froehlich elevated Geoplana marginata var. abundans to the level of species as Geoplana abundans. He also noticed that G. marginata sensu Graff and G. marginata sensu Marcus could not be G. marginata Schultze & Müller, but did not rename them.[9] In the same paper he also described a new yellow species with dark stripes and named it Geoplana fita.

In 1990, Robert E. Ogren and Masaharu Kawakatsu transferred G. marginata (based on the descriptions by Graff and Marcus) to the genus Notogynaphallia along with G. caissara, G. abundans, G. fita and several other species.[10]

More than a decade later, from 2001 to 2006, Eudóxia M. Froehlich and Ana Maria Leal-Zanchet analyzed the complex G. marginata (at the time Notogynaphallia marginata) and renamed G. marginata sensu Graff as Notogynaphallia graffi and G. marginata sensu Marcus as Notogynaphallia ernesti.[2][11] They also described a new species with the same pattern, naming it Notogynaphallia ceciliae and pointed out that N. caissara, N. abundans, N. graffi, N. ernesti and N. ceciliae, and possibly also N. muelleri and N. fita, formed a complex of closely related species within the genus Notogynaphallia.[2][12] Finally, in 2010, Fernando Carbayo transferred this species complex to a new genus, naming it Luteostriata.[1]

Phylogeny

Species of Luteostriata have a similar morphology, including a similar color pattern, a musculo-glandular cephalic organ with a retractor muscle that is lens-shaped in cross-section, a long and folded male atrium and a prostatic vesicle located outside the muscular coat that envelops the copulatory organs.[1][2] However, a molecular study on the phylogeny of the subfamily Geoplaninae suggested that Luteostriata is possibly paraphyletic, forming a monophyletic clade with the genera Issoca and Supramontana.[13] The clade is supported by at least one synapomorphy, the presence of a cephalic retractor muscle derived from the longitudinal cutaneous ventral musculature that anteriorly dissipates by detaching its fibers, making them open in a fan-like fashion towards the body margins.[1][13]

Issoca rezendei

Luteostriata graffi

Luteostriata graffi

Luteostriata sp. 1

Luteostriata sp.


Luteostriata muelleri

Luteostriata ernesti

Luteostriata sp. 2


Luteostriata ernesti?

Luteostriata ceciliae

Luteostriata abundans

Supramontana irritata

Issoca sp. 1

Issoca jandaia











References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Carbayo, Fernando (2010). "A new genus for seven Brazilian land planarian species, split off from Notogynaphalia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 140: 91–101.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria; Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria (2006). "A species complex in the genus Notogynaphallia Ogren and Kawakatsu (Platyhelminthes : Tricladida : Terricola) with a taxonomic revision of homonyms of Geoplana marginata Schultze & Müller and a reinterpretation of Notogynaphallia caissara (Froehlich) anatomy". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 136 (1): 81–100.
  3. 1 2 Schultze, Max; Müller, Fritz (1857). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Landplanarien". Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle (in German). 4: 61–74.
  4. ↑ Diesing, Karl Moriz (1861). "Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Dendrocoelen". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe (in German and Latin). 44: 486–578.
  5. 1 2 von Graff, Ludwig (1899). Monographie der Turbellarien. II. Tricladida Terricola (in German). Leipzig: Engelmann. p. 540.
  6. ↑ Riester, A. (1938). "Beiträge zur Geoplaniden-Fauna Brasiliens". Abhandlungen der senkenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft (in German). 441: 1–88.
  7. ↑ Marcus, Ernst (1951). "Turbellaria Brasileiros". Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Série Zoologia (in Portuguese). 16: 5–215.
  8. ↑ Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria (1955). "Sobre Espécies Brasileiras do Gênero Geoplana". Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Série Zoologia (in Portuguese). 19: 289–339.
  9. ↑ Froehlich, Claudio Gilberto (1959). "On Geoplanids from Brazil". Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Série Zoologia. 22: 201–265.
  10. ↑ Ogren, Robert E.; Kawakatsu, Masaharu (1990). "Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part I: Geoplaninae". The Bulletin of Fuji Women's College Series 2. 28: 79–166.
  11. ↑ Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria; Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria (2001). "A species complex in the genus Notogynaphallia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Terricola)". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 131 (supplement 1): 225–226.
  12. ↑ Froehlich, Eudóxia Maria; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2003). "A new species of terrestrial planarian of the genus Notogynaphallia Ogren & Kawakatsu (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Terricola) from south Brazil and some comments on the genus". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 20 (4): 745–753. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752003000400030. ISSN 0101-8175.
  13. 1 2 Carbayo, Fernando; Álvarez-Presas, Marta; Olivares, Cláudia T.; Marques, Fernando P. L.; Froehlich, Eudóxia M.; Riutort, Marta (2013). "Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: proposal of taxonomic actions". Zoologica Scripta. 42 (5): 508–528. doi:10.1111/zsc.12019. ISSN 0300-3256.
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