Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Order Tricladida > Suborder Continenticola > Superfamily Geoplanoidea > Family Dugesiidae > Genus Girardia

Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Girardia*	Ball, 1974	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Dugesia tigrina*	(Girard, 1850)	objective synonym

Literature

original description	Girard, C. F. (1850). Description of North American Planariae. Proceedings of thr Boston Society of Natural History 1848-1851. 3: 264-265.
additional source	Stocchino, G. A.; Sluys, R.; Harrath, A. H.; Mansour, L.; Manconi, R. (2019). The invasive alien freshwater flatworm Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) in Western Europe: new insights into its morphology, karyology and reproductive biology. Contributions to Zoology. 1-21.
biology source	Benítez-Álvarez, L.; Leria, L.; Sluys, R.; Leal-Zanchet, A. M.; Riutort, M. (2023). Niche modelling and molecular phylogenetics unravel the colonisation biology of three species of the freshwater planarian genus Girardia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida). Hydrobiologia. 850(14): 3125-3142.

Genbank

Citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:482186

Dr. Carolina Noreña Janssen. Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4ad5cf10-5cdc-462e-979a-826dcb7b6e52