Planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) of the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve

Prozorova L.A., Sergeev M.E.

A.I.Kurentsov memorial lectures 2023; (34): 224-233

An annotated list of the one terrestrial and three freshwater planarian species from the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve is given. The family Geoplanidae, two genera, Polycelis Ehrenberg, 1831 and Diversibipalium Kawakatsu, Ogren, Froehlich et Sasaki, 2002, and three species, Phagocata sibirica (Zabusov, 1903), Polycelis schmidti (Zabusov, 1916) and Diversibipalium sp. are recorded from reserve for the first time. The finding of the terrestrial hammerhead planarians genus Diversibipalium in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve is most north record of the East-Asian subfamily Bipaliinae (Geoplanidae).

DOI 10.25221/kurentzov.34.18

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