Paraba, Fernando Carbayo, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Cĺaudia T. Olivares, Fernando P. L. Marques, Eud Óxia M. Froehlich & Marta Riutort, 2013

Fernando Carbayo, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Cĺaudia T. Olivares, Fernando P. L. Marques, Eud Óxia M. Froehlich & Marta Riutort, 2013, Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: proposal of taxonomic actions, Zoologica Scripta 42, pp. 508-528 : 523-524

Genus Paraba gen. n

Etymology. In Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language), Paraba means multicoloured; it alludes to the multicoloured dorsum of the type species of the genus. The gender is female.

Diagnosis. Geoplaninae with small-to-medium-sized body, 6–80 mm in length; body slender, with margins nearly parallel; dorsum and ventral side slightly convex; eyes monolobulated; pharynx cylindrical; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, generally horizontal; penis papilla protrusible, conical; male atrium not folded; ascending portion of ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to female atrium, joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of female atrium; female atrium female atrium rounded, clothed with an epithelium with multilayered aspect.

Distribution. States of Rio de Janeiro, Stao Paulo, Parańa, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil.

Type species. Geoplana multicolor von Graff, 1899

Species of Paraba .

Paraba caapora ( Froehlich, 1958) comb. n. Paraba cassula ( E. M. Froehlich, 1955) comb. n.

Paraba franciscana ( Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001) *

comb. n.

Paraba gaucha ( Froehlich, 1959) comb. n.

Paraba goettei ( Schirch, 1929) comb. n.

Paraba incognita ( Riester, 1938) comb. n.

Paraba multicolor (von Graff, 1899) * comb. n.

Paraba phocaica ( Marcus, 1951) * comb. n.

Paraba piriana ( Almeida & Carbayo, 2012) comb. n. (in Almeida et al., 2012)

Paraba tingauna ( Kishimoto & Carbayo, 2012) comb. n. (in Almeida et al., 2012)

Paraba preta ( Riester, 1938) comb. n.

Paraba rubidolineata ( Baptista & Leal-Zanchet, 2005) * comb. n.

Paraba suva ( Froehlich, 1959) comb. n.

Paraba tapira ( Froehlich, 1958) comb. n.