Biology:Planarioidea

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Short description: Superfamily of flatworms

Planarioidea
Crenobia alpina
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Superfamily: Planarioidea
Stimpson, 1857
Families[1]

Planarioidea is a superfamily of freshwater triclads that comprises the families Dendrocoelidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae.

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic supertree after Sluys et al., 2009:[1]

Tricladida
 

Maricola

 
 
 

Cavernicola

 
Continenticola
Planarioidea
 

Planariidae

 
 
 

Kenkiidae

 
 

Dendrocoelidae

 
 
 
Geoplanoidea
 

Dugesiidae

 
 

Geoplanidae

 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M.; Riutort, M.; Baguñà, J. (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". Journal of Natural History 43 (29–30): 1763–1777. doi:10.1080/00222930902741669. 

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