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Pasiphaë.
Pasipha is a genus of land planarians from South America.
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Species of the genus Pasipha have a slender and flattened body with parallel margins while creeping. The copulatory apparatus lacks a permanent penis, having a long and highly folded male atrium instead. The prostatic vesicle is located outside the muscular coat of the copulatory apparatus and divided in two portions. The female canal enters the genital antrum ventrally.[1]
The name of Pasipha is derived from the specific epithet of the type species, Pasipha pasipha, known as Geoplana pasipha prior to the creation of the genus.[2]
There are 29 species assigned to the genus Pasipha:
- Pasipha albicaudata Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2018[3]
- Pasipha astraea (Marcus, 1951)
- Pasipha atla Negrete & Brusa, 2016[4]
- Pasipha backesi Leal-Zanchet, Rossi & Seitenfus, 2012
- Pasipha brevilineata Leal-Zanchet, Rossi & Alvarenga, 2012
- Pasipha caeruleonigra (Riester, 1938)
- Pasipha cafusa (Froehlich, 1956)
- Pasipha carajaensis Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2019[5]
- Pasipha chimbeva (E.M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Pasipha ferrariaphila Leal-Zanchet & Marques, 2018[6]
- Pasipha hauseri (Froehlich, 1959)
- Pasipha johnsoni Negrete & Brusa, 2016[4]
- Pasipha liviae Marques & Leal-Zanchet, 2022[7]
- Pasipha mbya Negrete & Brusa, 2016[4]
- Pasipha mesoxantha Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2016[8]
- Pasipha oliverioi (Froehlich, 1955)
- Pasipha pasipha (Marcus, 1951)
- Pasipha paucilineata Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2018[3]
- Pasipha penhana (Riester, 1938)
- Pasipha pinima (E.M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Pasipha plana (Schirch, 1929)
- Pasipha quirogai Negrete & Brusa, 2017[9]
- Pasipha rosea (E.M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Pasipha splendida (von Graff, 1899)
- Pasipha tapetilla (Marcus, 1951)
- Pasipha turvensis Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2016[8]
- Pasipha tutameia Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2019[5]
- Pasipha variistriata Amaral & Leal-Zanchet, 2018[3]
- Pasipha velutina (Riester, 1938)
Also, there are some species currently considered incertae sedis:[1]
- Pasipha aphalla (Hyman, 1941)
- Pasipha diminutiva (Hyman, 1955)
- Pasipha ercilla (E.M. Froehlich, 1978)
- Pasipha chilensis (von Graff, 1899)
- Pasipha velina (E.M. Froehlich, 1955)
- Pasipha weyrauchi (Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1951)
Carbayo, F.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Olivares, C. U. T.; Marques, F. P. L.; Froehlich, E. X. M.; Riutort, M. (2013). "Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: Proposal of taxonomic actions". Zoologica Scripta. 42 (5): 508. doi:10.1111/zsc.12019. Amaral, Silvana Vargas; Ribeiro, Giovana Gamino; Valiati, Victor Hugo; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2018). "Body doubles: an integrative taxonomic approach reveals new sibling species of land planarians". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (3): 533. doi:10.1071/IS17046. ISSN 1445-5226. Amaral, Silvana Vargas do; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria; Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes (2019). "Two new species of Neotropical land flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) occurring in ferruginous and limestone caves". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 283: 231–241. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.09.008. ISSN 0044-5231. Marques, Alessandro Damasceno; Hartmann, Alef; Valiati, Victor Hugo; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (9 November 2022). "Two new land planarian species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) from the Cerrado biome in southwestern Brazil". Zootaxa. 5205 (4): 301–330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5205.4.1. eISSN 1175-5334. ISSN 1175-5326. Amaral, Silvana Vargas Do; Leal-Zanchet, Ana Maria (2016). "Two new species of Pasipha Ogren & Kawakatsu (Platyhelminthes: Continenticola) from areas of deciduous forest in southern Brazil". Zootaxa. 4171 (3): 459. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4171.3.3. ISSN 1175-5334. Negrete, Lisandro; Brusa, Francisco (2017). "Increasing diversity of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) in the Interior Atlantic Forest with the description of two new species and new records from Argentina". Zootaxa. 4362 (1): 99. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334.
