Xerapoa Froehlich, 1955

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 : 524

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.399812
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scientific name	Xerapoa Froehlich, 1955
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Genus Xerapoa Froehlich, 1955 View in CoL

Emended diagnosis. Geoplaninae with small-sized body, 15–30 mm in length; thin, subcylindrical body, margins nearly parallel; anterior region raised; sensory pits may open at the tip of small papillae; eyes monolobulated, marginally arranged along the body; creeping sole as wide as one-third of body width; main nervous system two-chords shaped; pharynx cylindrical; ovaries close to the pharynx; ovovitelline ducts with ascending portion, if any, posterior to female atrium and joining each other behind female atrium; genital canal horizontal, arising from the posterior region of female atrium; female atrium small, funnel-shaped.

Distribution. States of Stao Paulo, Santa Catarina, in Brazil.

Type species. Xerapoa hystrix Froehlich, 1955 , designated by Froehlich (1955)

Xerapoa species.

Xerapoa hystrix Froehlich, 1955a *

Xerapoa una Froehlich, 1955a

Xerapoa pseudorhynchodemus ( Riester, 1938) * comb. n.

Xerapoa trina ( Marcus, 1951) * comb. n.