Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Order Tricladida > Suborder Continenticola > Superfamily Geoplanoidea > Family Geoplanidae > Subfamily Rhynchodeminae > Tribe Rhynchodemini > Genus Rhynchodemus

Rhynchodemus sylvaticus (Leidy, 1851) Leidy, 1851

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rhynchodemus*	Leidy, 1851	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Planaria sylvaticus*	Leidy, 1851	objective synonym
*Geodesmus bilineatus*	Mecznikow, 1866	subjective synonym
*Planaria sylvatica*	Leidy, 1851	synonym

Literature

basis of record	BODC. (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. BODC. (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
additional source	Stimpson, W. (1857). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem a Republica Federata missa, Johanne Rodgers Duce, observavit et descripsit. Pars I, Turbellaria Dendrocoela. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 9: 19-31 [1-13 in separate].
additional source	Moseley, H. N. (1874). On the anatomy and histology of the land-planarians of Ceylon, with some account of their habit and a desription of two new species, and with notes on the anatomy of some European aquatic species. Philos.Transact., p. 105-171, t. 10-15.
additional source	Leidy, J. (1858). Remarks on Rhynchodemus sylvaticus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 10: 171–172.
additional source	Hallez, P. (1893). Catalogue des turbellariés (Rhabdocoelides, Triclades et Polyclades) du Nord de la France et de la côte Boulonnaise. Rev. Biol. Nord Fr., 5: 135-158 and 165-197.
additional source	Schmarda, Ludwig K. (1859). Neue Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden, Beobachtet und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster hälfte. [Book]. 66 pp, W. Engelmann, Leipzig.
additional source	Diesing, K. M. (1862). Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Dendrocoelen. Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 44: 485-578.
new combination reference	Leidy, J. (1852). Corrections and additions to former papers on Helminthology published in the Proceedings of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natura Sciences of Philadelphia. 1850-1851. 5 (1850 & 1851): 284-290.

Genbank

Citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Rhynchodemus sylvaticus (Leidy, 1851) Leidy, 1851. 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:483252

Dr. Carolina Noreña Janssen. Rhynchodemus sylvaticus (Leidy, 1851) Leidy, 1851. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a38c95e2-1cb6-47f9-8f9a-2e0c8a5545e9