Paraba is a genus of land planarians from South America.
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
The following species are recognised in the genus Paraba:
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Paraba aurantia Marques & Leal-Zanchet, 2022[2]
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Paraba bresslaui (Schirch, 1929)[3]
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Paraba caapora (Froehlich, 1958)
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Paraba cassula (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
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Paraba franciscana (Leal-Zanchet & Carbayo, 2001)
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Paraba gaucha (Froehlich, 1959)
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Paraba goettei (Schirch, 1929)
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Paraba iguassuensis Peres, Rossi & Leal-Zanchet, 2020[4]
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Paraba incognita (Riester, 1938)
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Paraba multicolor (Graff, 1899)
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Paraba phocaica (Marcus, 1951)
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Paraba piriana (Almeida & Carbayo, 2012)
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Paraba preta (Riester, 1938)
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Paraba tingauna (Almeida & Carbayo, 2012)
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Paraba rubidolineata (Baptista & Leal-Zanchet, 2005)
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Paraba smaragdina Rossi, Negrete & Leal-Zanchet, 2020[4]
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Paraba suva (Froehlich, 1959)
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Paraba tapira (Froehlich, 1958)
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Paraba tata Bolonhezi, Lago-Barcia & Carbayo, 2020
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Paraba tingauna (Kishimoto & Carbayo, 2012)
References
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ Silva, Marcos Santos; Carbayo, Fernando (10 February 2020). "X-ray microcomputed tomography applied to the taxonomic study of rare material: redescriptions of seven of Schirch's Brazilian species of land planarians (Geoplanidae, Platyhelminthes)". ZooKeys. 910: 1–42. doi:10.3897/zookeys.910.39486. eISSN 1313-2970. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 7026197. PMID 32099514.
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^ a b Rossi, Ilana; Peres, Jéssica Cardoso; Negrete, Lisandro; Leal-Zanchet, Ana (September 2020). "Increasing the species diversity of the genus Paraba (Platyhelminthes) with the description of two new species from the southern atlantic forest". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 288: 11–23. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2020.06.003. ISSN 0044-5231.
