North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Planaria Müller O.F., 1776

AphiaID

152665 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152665)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Planariidae Stimpson, 1857

Direct children (3)

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Species Planaria torva (Müller, 1773) Müller, 176
Species Planaria crocea Fabricius, 1826 accepted as Macrorhynchus croceus (Fabricius, 1826) Graff, 1882 accepted as Graffiellus croceus (Fabricius, 1826) Hornung, 2016 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Planaria unipunctata Fabricius, 1826 accepted as Archilopsis unipunctata (Fabricius, 1826) (Synonym)

Environment

fresh

Original description

Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 222 [details]

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Planaria Müller O.F., 1776. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152665 on 2026-02-14

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Planaria Müller O.F., 1776. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=152665 on 2026-02-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-14 07:52:10Z

created

Artois, Tom

2010-06-17 12:41:58Z

changed

Tyler, Seth

2010-06-17 13:06:02Z

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Tyler, Seth

2016-06-15 09:14:08Z

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Tyler, Seth

2016-06-22 12:17:55Z

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Tyler, Seth

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original description Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 222 [details]

basis of record Tom Artois; Ernest Schockaert. (2005-2017). World database of Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Planaria)
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