Simpliciplana

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Simpliciplana
Illustration of Simpliciplana marginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Polycladida
Suborder: Cotylea
Family: Anonymidae
Genus: Simpliciplana
Kaburaki, 1923[1]
Species:
S. marginata
Binomial name
Simpliciplana marginata
Kaburaki, 1923[1]

Simpliciplana is a genus of flatworms in the family Anonymidae.[2][3] It is represented by the single species Simpliciplana marginata.[4] The holotype of the species was collected from Tominado Island, Tawi Tawi, Philippines.[1]

Description

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Arrangement of eyespots in Simpliciplana marginata

Numerous small eyespots form two irregular groups arranged in the tentacular flap, while slighty larger eyespots form an almost circular cluster over the location of the brain.[1]

It is one of the few cotylean genera lacking ventral suckers, along with some members of Cestoplanidae, members of Theamatidae, Amakusaplana, and, possibly, Chromyella.[5]

Taxonomy

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Although described in its original description in 1923 as a member of the family Diplopharyngeatidea,[1] in 1984, Fabel included it in the familty Anonymidae, emending the family to include other genera that, like the already included Anonymus, lacked prostatic glands, vesicles, or prostatoid organs.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Kaburaki, Tokio (1923). "The polyclad turbellarians from the Philippine Islands". Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 100. I (10): 635–649. hdl:10088/21238 – via Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
  2. ^ Holleman, John J. (1998-10-01). "Two new species of the genus Anonymus from New Zealand (Polycladida, Cotylea)". Hydrobiologia. 383 (1): 61–67. Bibcode:1998HyBio.383...61H. doi:10.1023/A:1003488905205. ISSN 1573-5117.
  3. ^ a b Faubel, A. (1984). "The Polycladida, Turbellaria. Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part II. The Cotylea". Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 81: 189–259.
  4. ^ "World list of turbellarian worms - Simpliciplana Kaburaki, 1923". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  5. ^ Dittmann, Isabel L.; Cuadrado, Daniel; Aguado, Maria Teresa; Noreña, Carolina; Egger, Bernhard (2019-12-01). "Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19 (4): 585–608. Bibcode:2019ODivE..19..585D. doi:10.1007/s13127-019-00415-1. ISSN 1618-1077.
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