Paraba
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| Paraba multicolor | |
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Paraba
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| Geoplana multicolor Graff, 1899
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Paraba is a genus of land planarians from South America.
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Description
Species of the genus Paraba have a slender body with nearly parallel margins while creeping. The largest specimens may reach about 8 cm in length. The copulatory apparatus has a permanent conical penis occupying the entire male cavity and the female cavity is rounded and filled with a multilayered epithelium.[1]
Etymology
Paraba means multicolored in the Tupi language and alludes to the name of the type-species, Paraba multicolor.
Species
There are 14 species assigned to the genus Paraba:
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- Paraba caapora (Froehlich, 1958)
- Paraba cassula (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Paraba franciscana (Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001)
- Paraba gaucha (Froehlich, 1959)
- Paraba goettei (Schirch, 1929)
- Paraba incognita (Riester, 1938)
- Paraba multicolor (Graff, 1899)
- Paraba phocaica (Marcus, 1951)
- Paraba piriana (Almeida & Carbayo, 2012)
- Paraba preta (Riester, 1938)
- Paraba tingauna (Almeida & Carbayo, 2012)
- Paraba rubidolineata (Baptista & Leal-Zanchet, 2005)
- Paraba suva (Froehlich, 1959)
- Paraba tapira (Froehlich, 1958)
References
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