Obama josefi
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Obama josefi is a Brazilian type of land planarians .
features
Obama josefi has a lance-shaped body, which is very flat in large individuals. They can reach a body length of up to 130 millimeters.
The color of O. josefi varies depending on the age of the individuals. The basic color of young individuals is yellowish, a dark brown to black stripe runs lengthways along the back center line of the body, with other stripes of the same color running parallel to it. The stripes do not run to the front end, which is orange in color.
When they reach sexual maturity, the animals develop dark patches of skin behind the orange front end, so that color gradations between yellowish and brown areas are less noticeable. In adult individuals, the number of skin spots is so large that the back has a uniform greenish dark brown color. The front end retains its orange color, although this is darker than that of young animals.
distribution
The habitat of O. josefi are humid forests in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul and in the east of Santa Catarinas , in southern Brazil.
nutrition
In the natural habitat , O. josefi feeds on native land planarians .
Laboratory experiments have shown that O. josefi caught and consumed the land planaria Endeavouria septemlineata , which is invasive in Brazil and originates from the Pacific region.
etymology
The name Obama is derived from the Tupi language that was spoken on the Atlantic coast of Brazil . It is a combination of the words oba ( German leaf ) and ma ( German animal ). This refers to the outer, leaf-like shape.
The species name josefi honors the Hungarian zoologist Josef Hauser , founder of the institute for the study of planarians at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d F. Carbayo, AM Leal-Zanchet: A new species of terrestrial planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) from South Brazil . In: Brazilian Journal of Biology . 61, No. 3, 2001, ISSN 1519-6984 , pp. 437-447. doi : 10.1590 / S1519-69842001000300013 .
- ↑ Silvana Vargas do Amaral, Ilana Rossi Hack, Giuly Gouvêa Iturralde, Ana Maria Leal-Zanchet: Land Flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) in Remnants of Deciduous Forest in the Northeast Region Of Southern Brazil . In: Biota Neotropica . 14, No. 1, 2014, ISSN 1676-0603 , pp. 1-6. doi : 10.1590 / S1676-06020140045 .
- ↑ Piter K. Boll, Ilana Rossi, Silvana V. Amaral, Ana Leal-Zanchet: A taste for exotic food: Neotropical land planarians feeding on an invasive flatworm . In: PeerJ . 3, 2015, ISSN 2167-8359 , p. E1307. doi : 10.7717 / peerj.1307 . PMID 26500817 . PMC 4614845 (free full text).
- ↑ F. Carbayo, M. Álvarez-Presas, CUT Olivares, FPL Marques, EXM Froehlich, M. Riutort: Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: Proposal of taxonomic actions . In: Zoologica Scripta . 42, No. 5, 2013, pp. 508-528. doi : 10.1111 / zsc.12019 .