''Cura foremanii'' is a species of freshwater
planarian
A planarian is one of the many flatworms of the traditional class Turbellaria. It usually describes free-living flatworms of the order Tricladida (triclads), although this common name is also used for a wide number of free-living platyhelmint ...
belonging to the family
Dugesiidae
Dugesiidae is a family of freshwater planarians distributed worldwide (except Antarctica). The type genus is ''Dugesia'' Girard, 1850.Ball, I. R.: A contribution to the phylogeny and biogeography of the freshwater triclads (Platyhelminthes: Tur ...
.
[Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2023). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora]
''Cura foremanii'' (Girard, 1852)
Accessed 2023-06-24. It is found in freshwater habitats within
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
.
Etymology
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
was given in honor of
Edward R. Foreman.
[Girard, C. F. (1852)]
Description of two new genera and two new species of Planaria
''Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.'' 4: 210-213.
Description
''Cura foremanii'' is about 7–15 millimeters in length, and has a flat, oblong, broad, thick, oval-like shape. Its head is in the shape of a broad triangle with a blunt point. It has unpigmented circular dash-like regions on the side of its auricles; but its general body color ranges from dark brown or gray to black. Its underside is pale, but retains the same hue as its backside.
[Kenk, R. (1972)]
''Freshwater planarians (Turbellaria) of North America''.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It has two eyes; the eyes are a light grey or white with black pigment forming a "pupil".
References
Animals described in 1852
Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard
Dugesiidae
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