Dugesia japonica

Dugesia japonica
Two headed D. japonica that regenerated from a trunk fragment exposed to Praziquantel.[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Dugesia
Species: D. japonica
Binomial name
Dugesia japonica
Ichikawa & Kawakatsu, 1964

Dugesia japonica is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits the freshwater bodies of East Asia. Because it is under the genus dugesia, it is also sometimes considered a type of planarian.[2]

Phylogeny

D. japonica position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009:[3]

 Dugesia 


 D. sicula



 D. aethiopica







 D. japonica




 D. ryukyuensis




 D. notogaea



 D. bengalensis








 D. subtentaculata




 D. gonocephala




 D. liguriensis




 D. etrusca



 D. ilvana







 D. benazzii



 D. hepta






References

  1. ↑ Nogi, T.; Zhang, D.; Chan, J. D.; Marchant, J. S. (2009). Keiser, Jennifer, ed. "A Novel Biological Activity of Praziquantel Requiring Voltage-Operated Ca2+ Channel β Subunits: Subversion of Flatworm Regenerative Polarity". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 3 (6): e464. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000464. PMC 2694594Freely accessible. PMID 19554083.
  2. ↑ Hong-Chung, Pan (2008-03). "EFFECT OF MEDIUM pH ON POPULATION GROWTH,ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION AND ACTIVITY OF SIX ENZYMES OF DUGESIA JAPONICA". Acta Hydr Sin Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ↑ Lázaro, E. M.; Sluys, R.; Pala, M.; Stocchino, G. A.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2009). "Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (3): 835–845. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.022. PMID 19435604.
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