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First report in France of Caenoplana decolorata, a recently described species of alien terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae)

View ORCID ProfileJean-Lou Justine, View ORCID ProfileDelphine Gey, View ORCID ProfileJessica Thévenot, Clément Gouraud, View ORCID ProfileLeigh Winsor
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.06.371385
Jean-Lou Justine
1ISYEB, Institut Systématique Évolution Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 51, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Delphine Gey
2Service de Systématique moléculaire, UMS 2700 CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 43 rue Cuvier, CP 26, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Jessica Thévenot
3UMS Patrinat, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Clément Gouraud
4Groupe d’étude des invertébrés armoricains (GRETIA), Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
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Leigh Winsor
5College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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Abstract

Alien land flatworms (family Geoplanidae) are invading many countries in the world. Some can easily be identified by their morphology and colour pattern, but some are more cryptic and necessitate a molecular approach. Caenoplana decolorata Mateos et al., 2020 was recently described, from specimens found in Spain, as a sibling species to C. coerulea Moseley, 1877. We found that one specimen collected in Nantes, France in 2014 had a 100% identity of its COI sequence with one specimen of the original description of C. decolorata, and thus we record here the species for the first time in France.

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First report in France of Caenoplana decolorata, a recently described species of alien terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae)
Jean-Lou Justine, Delphine Gey, Jessica Thévenot, Clément Gouraud, Leigh Winsor
bioRxiv 2020.11.06.371385; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.06.371385
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First report in France of Caenoplana decolorata, a recently described species of alien terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae)
Jean-Lou Justine, Delphine Gey, Jessica Thévenot, Clément Gouraud, Leigh Winsor
bioRxiv 2020.11.06.371385; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.06.371385

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