Amaga expatria Jones & Sterrer, 2005
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: February 1988 (Jones & Sterrer, 2005:33)
Rediscovered in: 2006 (Justine et al., 2020)
Distribution
Unknown, but presumably South America(?). Known as introduced populations from Bermuda, Guadeloupe & Martinique.
Type locality: "Bermuda Botanical Gardens, Paget, Bermuda" (Jones & Sterrer, 2005:32)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Jones, Hugh D. and Sterrer, Wolfgang. (2005). Terrestrial planarians (Platyhelminthes, with three new species) and nemertines of Bermuda. Zootaxa 1001(1): 31-58.
Other references:
Delannoye, R., Charles, L., Pointier, J. P. and Massemin, D. (2015). Mollusques continentaux de la Martinique/Non-marine molluscs of Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.
Gastineau, R. and Justine, J.-L. (2020). Complete mitogenome of the invasive land flatworm Parakontikia ventrolineata, the second Geoplanidae (Platyhelminthes) to display an unusually long cox2 gene. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5(3): 2115-2116.
Justine, Jean-Lou, Gey, D., Thévenot, J., Gastineau, R. and Jones, Hugh D. (2020). The land flatworm Amaga expatria (Geoplanidae) in Guadeloupe and Martinique: new reports and molecular characterization including complete mitogenome. PeerJ 8:e10098. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10098
Tyler, S., Artois, T., Schilling, S., Hooge, M. and Bush, L. F. (eds.). (2006-2022). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Amaga expatria Jones & Sterrer, 2005. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=484400 on 2022-04-03