Pichidamas, Bulnes & Grau & Carbayo, 2018

Bulnes, Verónica N., Grau, José H. & Carbayo, Fernando, 2018, A new Chilean genus and species of land planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida, Geoplaninae) with cephalic retractor muscle and adenodactyl, Journal of Natural History 52 (39 - 40), pp. 2553-2566 : 2554

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2018.1538468
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:04423258-DB01-4CE3-A474-EF6B563C605C
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C987C0-FFA4-FFA8-2807-507FFDADFA29
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Pichidamas
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Pichidamas View in CoL gen. nov.

Diagnosis

Geoplaninae with small to medium-sized body, sub-cylindrical, slender with nearly parallel margins, anterior and posterior end rounded. Eyes monolobulated distributed along the body margins. Sensory pits absent. Cephalic retractor muscle present, derived from ventral longitudinal cutaneous musculature. Five parenchymatic muscle layers, ventralmost layer of decussate fibres and located to the inside of the peripheral nervous plexus. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Distal portion of male atrium with an adenodactyl. Penis eversible. Ovovitelline ducts ventral, opening to the common ovovitelline duct from posteroventral.

Type species

Pichidamas piru View in CoL sp. n.

Etymology

The generic epithet refers to Pichidamas (gender: masc.), the name of the locality where the type material was collected.