''Marionfyfea'' is a genus of land planarians from Antarctic Islands off New Zealand. However, a species has been described from specimens found in Europe, probably introduced.

Description

The genus ''Maryonfyfea'' includes land planarians of the tribe Anzoplanini that have a small and elongate body, with mouth just behind the mid body and gonopore closer to the mouth than to the posterior end. The mesenchymal musculature includes strong bundles of dorsal longitudinal muscles, weak bundles of longitudinal muscles forming a ring zone around the intestine, and small ventral bundles of mixed longitudinal and transversal muscles forming a subneural plate. The copulatory apparatus has an inverted penis and adenodactyls.

Etymology

The name ''Marionfyfea'' honours

Marion Fyfe Marion Liddell Fyfe (1 September 1897 – 26 August 1986) was a New Zealand academic, specialising in taxonomy of planarians and other flatworms, the first woman zoology lecturer at the University of Otago, and the first woman to be elected to ...

, for "her pioneering taxonomic anatomical work on the Terricola of New Zealand". The genus was first described as ''Fyfea'' Winsor 2006, which was preoccupied, then changed to ''Marionfyfea'' Winsor, 2011.

Species

The genus ''Marionfyfea'' includes the following species: *'' Marionfyfea carnleyi'' (Fyfe, 1953) Winsor, 2011 *'' Marionfyfea adventor'' Jones & Sluys, 2016

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q21224881 Geoplanidae Worms of New Zealand Rhabditophora genera