| Home
About
Membership
Login |
|
|
|
DISTRIBUTION
LAND PLANARIAN SPECIES KNOWN IN NORTH AMERICA
And Occurrence by State.
Land flatworms have a world-wide distribution. Most of those given below were introduced accidentally from other parts of the world. Species from each of the three families are found in U.S.A.
I. Family Bipaliidae von Graff.
1. Bipalium adventitium Hyman, 1943 [CA, CT, MA, MD, NY, PA, TN, WA]
2. Bipalium kewense Moseley, 1878 [Cosmopolitan: AL, AK, CA, DC, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, ME, MA, MD, MI, NJ, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA; Canada: Manitoba & Ontario/ Mexico.]
3. Bipalium pennsylvanicum Ogren, 1987 [PA]
II. Family Rhynchodemidae von Graff, 1896
A.Subfamily: Rhynchodeminae Corrêa, 1947
4. Dolichoplana striata Moseley, 1877 [FL, GA, MO]
5. Rhynchodemus sylvaticus (Leidy, 1851)[LA, MD, MO, NC, NY, OH, PA, RI, TX, WI; Canada: Ontario]
B. Subfamily: Microplaninae Pantin, 1953
6. Diporodemus indigenus Hyman, 1943[DC, IL?, IN?, KY, LA, MD, MI, NC, NY, TN, VA, WV; Canada: Quebec.]
7. Microplana rufocephalata Hyman, 1954 [KY]
8. Microplana scharffi (von Graff, 1896) [WA]
9. Microplana terrestris (O.F. Müller, 1774)[AR, IL, KY, MO, MD, NY, OH, PA, NC, TN, VA, WA, WI/ Canada: Quebec].
III. Family Geoplanidae Stimpson, 1857
10. Geoplana arkalabamensis Ogren & Darlington, 1991 [AR, AL, TX]
11. Caenoplana coerulea vaga (Hyman, 1943)[CA, FL, GA, TX,NC,SC]
12. Kontikia ventrolineata mexicana (Hyman, 1939)
[AZ, CA, TX, WA]
[See Ball & Sluys, 1990, p. 139, Table 7.1, Known North American species of terrestrial planarians.
|