Obama, 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.399812
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5616090
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D2353E-FFE9-6358-FF4E-B2ED2F7FBE93
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Obama
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Obama View in CoL gen. n

Etymology. The name Obama is a composition of the Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language) words oba (meaning leaf) and ma (animal). It alludes to the characteristically flattened, leaf-shaped body of the species of the genus. The gender is female.

Diagnosis. Geoplaninae with medium-sized to large body, 30–300 mm in length; body broad, flattened, leafshaped; eyes mono- and trilobulated, dorsal; part of the sensory pits arranged in 2–4 rows on each side of the body; pharynx cylindrical or bell-shaped; prostatic vesicle extrabulbar, short, curved and anteriorly branched; penis papilla protrusible, conical, horizontal, occupying entire male atrium, with dorsal insertion posterior to the ventral, sometimes laterally displaced; male atrium, not folded, generally not separated from the female one; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the female atrium and joining each other above it; genital canal dorso-anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal or posterior region of the female atrium; female atrium ample, long or funnelshaped.

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

Type species. Geoplana fryi von Graff, 1899

Species of Obama .

Obama apeva ( Froehlich, 1959) comb. n.

Obama applanata (von Graff, 1899) comb. n.

Obama argus (von Graff, 1899) comb. n.

Obama assu ( Froehlich, 1959) comb. n.

Obama baptistae ( Leal-Zanchet & Oliveira, 2012) comb. n.

Obama braunsi (von Graff, 1899) comb. n.

Obama burmeisteri ( Schultze & Müller, 1857) * comb. n.

Obama carbayoi ( Oliveira & Leal-Zanchet, 2012) comb. n.

Obama carinata ( Riester, 1938) * comb. n.