- Source: Paraba
Paraba is a genus of land planarians from South America.
Description
Species of the genus Paraba have a slender body with nearly parallel margins while creeping. The largest specimens may reach about 8 cm in length. Both sides of the body are slightly convex. The pharynx is cylindrical and the prostatic vesicle is extrabulbar. The copulatory apparatus has a permanent, protrusible, conical penis occupying the entire male cavity, which is unfolded, and the female cavity is rounded and filled with a multilayered epithelium.
Etymology
Paraba means multicolored in the Tupi language and alludes to the name of the type-species, Paraba multicolor.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Paraba:
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Tyrinthia paraba
- Isomerida paraba
- Nyssicostylus paraba
- Isomerida longicornis
- Isomerida cinctiventris
- Isomerida santamarta
- Isomerida separata
- Isomerida paraiba
- Isomerida ruficornis
- Isomerida ibitira
- Paraba
- Paraba caapora
- Paraba multicolor
- Nyssicostylus paraba
- Paraba smaragdina
- Paraba tata
- Paraba aurantia
- Paraba franciscana
- Tyrinthia paraba
- Paraba iguassuensis
