2/21/2024 0 Comments New guinea flat worm![]() ![]() ![]() Two haplotypes of the COI sequence, differing by 3.7%, were detected: the “World haplotype” found in France, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Singapore, Florida and Puerto Rico and the “Australian haplotype” found in Australia. In addition, specimens collected in Townsville (Australia) were also sequenced. We analysed the COI gene (barcoding) in these specimens with two sets of primers and obtained 909 bp long sequences. We report specimens from six additional countries and territories: New Caledonia (including mainland and two of the Loyalty Islands, Lifou and Maré), Wallis and Futuna Islands, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Puerto Rico, and Florida, USA. ![]() The land planarian Platydemus manokwari de Beauchamp, 1963 or “New Guinea flatworm” is a highly invasive species, mainly in the Pacific area, and recently in Europe (France). The invasive land planarian Platydemus manokwari (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae): records from six new localities, including the first in the USA. Cite this article Justine J, Winsor L, Barrière P, Fanai C, Gey D, Han AWK, La Quay-Velázquez G, Lee BPY, Lefevre J, Meyer J, Philippart D, Robinson DG, Thévenot J, Tsatsia F. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. 14 Service du Patrimoine Naturel, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France DOI 10.7717/peerj.1037 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Hannah Buckley Subject Areas Agricultural Science, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Taxonomy, Zoology Keywords Invasive species, Alien species, Land planarian, USA, New Caledonia, Solomon Island, Singapore, French Polynesia, Flatworm, Puerto Rico Copyright © 2015 Justine et al. ![]()
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