Turbellarians - Geoplana lyra Steel, 1900

Turbellarians name details

Geoplana lyra Steel, 1900

AphiaID

486434 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:486434)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Kontikia lyra (Steel, 1900)

Rank

Species

Parent

Geoplana Müller, 1856

Original name

Geoplana lyra Steel, 1900

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

Steel, T. (1901). Australian Land Planarians: Descriptions of New Species and Notes on Collecting and Preserving. No. 2; Part I: Descriptions of new species, &c. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 25(4): 563-580, plate 34. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2024). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Geoplana lyra Steel, 1900. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=486434 on 2026-07-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-06-25 07:25:58Z

created

Tyler, Seth

2021-12-20 08:05:46Z

changed

Tyler, Seth

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original description Steel, T. (1901). Australian Land Planarians: Descriptions of New Species and Notes on Collecting and Preserving. No. 2; Part I: Descriptions of new species, &c. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 25(4): 563-580, plate 34. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database