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Dugesia japonica

Dugesia japonica
Two headed Dugesia japonica.jpg
Two headed D. japonica that regenerated from a trunk fragment exposed to Praziquantel.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Dugesia
Species: D. japonica
Binomial name
Dugesia japonica
Ichikawa & Kawakatsu, 1964

Dugesia japonica is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits the freshwater bodies of East Asia. Because it is under the genus Dugesia, it is also sometimes considered a type of planarian.

D. japonica position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009:

 D. sicula

 D. aethiopica

 D. japonica

 D. ryukyuensis

 D. notogaea

 D. bengalensis

 D. subtentaculata

 D. gonocephala

 D. liguriensis

 D. etrusca

 D. ilvana

 D. benazzii

 D. hepta


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