Turbellarian taxonomic database

Girardia tigrina Notes


Salo E, Tauler J, Jimenez E, Bayascas JR, Gonzalez-Linares J, Garcia-Fernandez J, Baguna J  2001 (citation)-
"Hox and ParaHox genes in flatworms: Characterization and expression."

Sheiman IM, Zubina EV, Kreshchenko ND 2002 (citation)-  "Regulation of feeding behaviour in the turbellarian
Dugesia (Girardia) tigrina."

Rebrikov DV, Bogdanova EA, Bulina ME, Lukyanov SA  2002 (citation)- "A new planarian extrachromosomal virus-like
element revealed by subtraction hybridization."

Bueno D, Fernandez-Rodriguez J, Cardona A, Hernandez-Hernandez V, Romero R  2002 (citation)- "A novel
invertebrate trophic factor related to invertebrate neurotrophins is involved in planarian body regional
survival and asexual reproduction."

Pineda D, Rossi L, Batistoni R, Salvetti A, Marsal M, Gremigni V, Falleni A, Gonzalez-Linares J, Deri P,
Salo
E 2002 (citation)- "The genetic network of prototypic planarian eye regeneration is Pax6 independent."

Notes from synonyms

Notes for Dugesia tigrina

Kenk R 1972 (citation)- p 21, "Widely distributed, generally in warm ponds, lakes, and rivers in the United
States and southern Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts."

Notes for Dugesia tigrina

Kenk R 1944 (citation)- p 15, 'Dugesia tigrina is the most common planarian in Michigan.  It lives in ponds, rivers, and creeks, particularly those that drain larger bodies of stagnant water.  It is absent in cold springs and spring-fed ponds.  One finds it commonly along the shores of lakes on the undersides of stones, or among water plants, but also in deeper water away from shore.  The species reproduces either agamically, by fission, or sexually, by egg capsules.  Fission occurs in nature mainly during the warmer season, sexual reproduction commonly in late spring and early summer.'

p 16, referring to animals collected in South Fishtail Bay, Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan.  'The small size of the animals is remarkable (smallest mature specimen, 6 mm; largest, 11 mm.).  An earlier note by me (Kenk 1941: 56, footnote) refers to this collection.'

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