Schmidtea | |
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Schmidtea mediterranea | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Rhabditophora |
Order: | Tricladida |
Family: | Dugesiidae |
Genus: |
Schmidtea Ball, 1974 |
Species | |
Schmidtea is a freshwater planarian genus widely used in regeneration and developmental studies.
Until 1991 Schmidtea was considered a Dugesia subgenus, then it was upgraded to the genus rank.
Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008:
Schmidtea