Planarioidea is a
superfamily of freshwater
triclad
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 platyhelm ...
s that comprises the
families
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Dendrocoelidae
Dendrocoelidae is a family of freshwater tricladida flatworms that has a holarctic distribution.
The largest freshwater triclad known belongs to this family, it's up to 40 cm in length and inhabits the Lake Baikal.
Description
The famil ...
,
Kenkiidae and
Planariidae
Planariidae is a family (biology), family of freshwater Tricladida, planarians.
The type genus is ''Planaria'' Müller, 1776.Ball IR: A contribution to the phylogeny and biogeography of the freshwater triclads (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria). Bi ...
.
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic supertree after Sluys et al., 2009:
References
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Animal superfamilies