Turbellarians name details
Planaria terrestris (Müller, 1773) Müller, 1776
1506491 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1506491)
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(of Fasciola terrestris Müller, 1773) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344 [details] 
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Planaria terrestris (Müller, 1773) Müller, 1776. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1506491 on 2026-01-20
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(of Fasciola terrestris Müller, 1773) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344 [details]
additional source Örsted, A.S. (1844). Entwurf einer systematischen Einteilung und speciellen Beschreibung der Plattwuermer auf microscopische Untersuchungen gegründet. <em>J.C. Scharling, Copenhagen.</em> 96 p., 3 taf.
page(s): 55 [details]
additional source Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3092–3093; note: Entry number 33. Name "terrestris" not readable in copy. [details]
additional source Semper, K. (1880). Die naturlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere. Erster Theil. [The Natural Conditions of Existence of Animals. First Part]. <em>Internationale Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Leipzig. (.</em> 299 pp.
page(s): 229 [details]
additional source Schmarda, Ludwig K. (1859). Neue Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden, Beobachtet und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster hälfte. <em>[Book].</em> 66 pp, W. Engelmann, Leipzig., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50347
page(s): XIII [details]
additional source Cuvier, F. G. (1826). Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles,dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les artes. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes ...Par plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du roi, et des princpales écoles de Paris. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.42219
page(s): 215 [details]
additional source Diesing, C.M. [[Karl Moritz, usually as Latin C. M = Carolo Mauritio]. (1850). Systema Helminthum. Vol. I. <em>[book].</em> xiii[xvi] + 679 pp.W. Vindobonae, Braumüller, Wien., available online at https://archive.org/details/systemahelminth00diesgoog/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
page(s): 206 [details]
additional source Ehrenberg, C. G. (1836). Die Akalephen des Rothen Meeres und der Organismus der Medusen der Ostsee erläutert und auf Systematik angewendet. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin.</em> 111 pp.
page(s): 67 [details]
additional source Dugès, A. (1830). Aperçu de quelques observations nouvelles sur les Planaires et plusieurs genres voisins. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles.</em> 1. Ser. Tom. 21: 72-91., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32172479 [details]
additional source Houghton, W. (1870). On two species of Land-Planarians from Borneo. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 4(6): 255–257. [details]
additional source Örsted, A. S. (1843). Forsog til en ny Classification af Planarierne (Planariea Dugès) grundet paa mikroskopisk-anatomiske Undersogelser. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(8): 519–581., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2323275
page(s): 552 [details]
additional source Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. <em>Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville.</em> 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 306–307 [details]
additional source Jenyns. (1846). Observations in natural history: with an introduction on habits of observing, as connected with the study of that science. Also a calendar of periodic phenomena in natural history; with remarks on the importance of such registers. 441 p.
page(s): 315–317; note: The authorship of this record is not clear. Acoording to Graff (1899: p.4) it is to be attributed to Blomefield, a name also appearing in hand writing on the title page of the publication. However, th...
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additional source Noll, F.C. (1862). Über eine Landplanarie (Planaria terrestris, O. F. Müll.). <em>Der Zoologische Garten.</em> 3: 254–255. [details]
additional source Steenstrup, J. (1869). Om Jord-Fladormens (Planaria terrestris O. F. M.) Forekomst i Danmark. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn.</em> 189-194. [details]
additional source Lubbock, J. (1870). Note on the Discovery of Planaria terrestris in England. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> [details]
additional source Leuckart, R. (1869). Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der niedern Thiere während der Jahre 1868 und 1869. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 35(2): 207–344., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7059314 [details]
additional source Blomefield, L. (1877). Note on the occurrence of the Land Planaria (Planaria terrestris) in the neighbourhood of Bath. <em>Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club.</em> 3: 72–73. [details]
additional source Graff, L. von. (1879). Ueber einige interessante Thiere des Zoologischen und des Palmengartens zu Frankfurt a. M. <em>Der Zoologische Garten.</em> 20: 196–199. [details]
additional source Carrière, J. (1879). Ein neuer Fundort von Planaria terrestris 0. F. Müller. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 2(45): 668. [details]
new combination reference Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]
additional source Örsted, A.S. (1844). Entwurf einer systematischen Einteilung und speciellen Beschreibung der Plattwuermer auf microscopische Untersuchungen gegründet. <em>J.C. Scharling, Copenhagen.</em> 96 p., 3 taf.
page(s): 55 [details]
additional source Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3092–3093; note: Entry number 33. Name "terrestris" not readable in copy. [details]
additional source Semper, K. (1880). Die naturlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere. Erster Theil. [The Natural Conditions of Existence of Animals. First Part]. <em>Internationale Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Leipzig. (.</em> 299 pp.
page(s): 229 [details]
additional source Schmarda, Ludwig K. (1859). Neue Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden, Beobachtet und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster hälfte. <em>[Book].</em> 66 pp, W. Engelmann, Leipzig., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50347
page(s): XIII [details]
additional source Cuvier, F. G. (1826). Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles,dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les artes. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes ...Par plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du roi, et des princpales écoles de Paris. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.42219
page(s): 215 [details]
additional source Diesing, C.M. [[Karl Moritz, usually as Latin C. M = Carolo Mauritio]. (1850). Systema Helminthum. Vol. I. <em>[book].</em> xiii[xvi] + 679 pp.W. Vindobonae, Braumüller, Wien., available online at https://archive.org/details/systemahelminth00diesgoog/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
page(s): 206 [details]
additional source Ehrenberg, C. G. (1836). Die Akalephen des Rothen Meeres und der Organismus der Medusen der Ostsee erläutert und auf Systematik angewendet. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin.</em> 111 pp.
page(s): 67 [details]
additional source Dugès, A. (1830). Aperçu de quelques observations nouvelles sur les Planaires et plusieurs genres voisins. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles.</em> 1. Ser. Tom. 21: 72-91., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32172479 [details]
additional source Houghton, W. (1870). On two species of Land-Planarians from Borneo. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 4(6): 255–257. [details]
additional source Örsted, A. S. (1843). Forsog til en ny Classification af Planarierne (Planariea Dugès) grundet paa mikroskopisk-anatomiske Undersogelser. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(8): 519–581., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2323275
page(s): 552 [details]
additional source Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. <em>Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville.</em> 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 306–307 [details]
additional source Jenyns. (1846). Observations in natural history: with an introduction on habits of observing, as connected with the study of that science. Also a calendar of periodic phenomena in natural history; with remarks on the importance of such registers. 441 p.
page(s): 315–317; note: The authorship of this record is not clear. Acoording to Graff (1899: p.4) it is to be attributed to Blomefield, a name also appearing in hand writing on the title page of the publication. However, th...
The authorship of this record is not clear. Acoording to Graff (1899: p.4) it is to be attributed to Blomefield, a name also appearing in hand writing on the title page of the publication. However, the name "Blomefield" is nowhere else in the publication.
additional source Noll, F.C. (1862). Über eine Landplanarie (Planaria terrestris, O. F. Müll.). <em>Der Zoologische Garten.</em> 3: 254–255. [details]
additional source Steenstrup, J. (1869). Om Jord-Fladormens (Planaria terrestris O. F. M.) Forekomst i Danmark. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn.</em> 189-194. [details]
additional source Lubbock, J. (1870). Note on the Discovery of Planaria terrestris in England. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> [details]
additional source Leuckart, R. (1869). Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der niedern Thiere während der Jahre 1868 und 1869. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 35(2): 207–344., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7059314 [details]
additional source Blomefield, L. (1877). Note on the occurrence of the Land Planaria (Planaria terrestris) in the neighbourhood of Bath. <em>Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club.</em> 3: 72–73. [details]
additional source Graff, L. von. (1879). Ueber einige interessante Thiere des Zoologischen und des Palmengartens zu Frankfurt a. M. <em>Der Zoologische Garten.</em> 20: 196–199. [details]
additional source Carrière, J. (1879). Ein neuer Fundort von Planaria terrestris 0. F. Müller. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 2(45): 668. [details]
new combination reference Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]