''Polycelis'' is a genus of
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 ...
s in the family Planariidae.
The genus was described in 1831 by
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist and was considered to be of the most famous and productive scie ...
and currently has no consensus on the exact number of species.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Polycelis'':
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Polycelis aurantiacus''
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Polycelis benazzii''
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Polycelis bilinearis''
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Polycelis borelli''
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Polycelis borellii''
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Polycelis brunnea''
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Polycelis catulus''
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Polycelis cormita''
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Polycelis coronata''
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Polycelis ebernea''
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Polycelis eburnea''
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Polycelis elegans''
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Polycelis elongata''
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Polycelis eudendrocoeloides''
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Polycelis eurantron''
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Polycelis fallax''
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Polycelis felina''
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Polycelis gracilis''
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Polycelis hepta''
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Polycelis hepta a''
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Polycelis jinglensis''
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Polycelis jingyuanica''
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Polycelis kashmirica''
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Polycelis koslowi''
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Polycelis kulsaika''
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Polycelis lactea''
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Polycelis lhunzhubica''
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Polycelis lineoliger''
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Polycelis linkoi''
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Polycelis nigra
''Polycelis'' is a genus of planarians in the family Planariidae. The genus was described in 1831 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative ...
''
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Polycelis nigro-fusca''
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Polycelis nyingchica''
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Polycelis oculimarginata''
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Polycelis pallida''
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Polycelis pamirensis''
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Polycelis panniculatus''
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Polycelis pathan''
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Polycelis polychroa''
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Polycelis polyopis''
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Polycelis pulla''
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Polycelis receptaculosa''
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Polycelis relicta''
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Polycelis roseimaculatus''
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Polycelis sapporo''
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Polycelis schmidti''
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Polycelis schulmanii''
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Polycelis sierrensis''
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Polycelis sinensis''
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Polycelis stummeri''
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Polycelis surantion''
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Polycelis tasmanica''
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Polycelis tenuis''
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Polycelis tibetica''
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Polycelis tothi''
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Polycelis vaginuloides''
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Polycelis variabilis''
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Polycelis wutaishanica''
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Polycelis xigazensis''
References
Tricladida
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