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Humbertium ravenalae

Humbertium
Humbertium diana.jpg
Drawing of Humbertium diana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Geoplanidae
Subfamily: Bipaliinae
Genus: Humbertium
Ogren & Sluys, 2001
Type species
Perocephalus ravenalae
von Graff, 1899

Humbertium is a genus of land planarians of the subfamily Bipaliinae (hammerhead flatworms).

Species of Humbertium are characterized by the presence of a well developed penis papilla in the copulatory apparatus, similar to the one in Bipalium, but with the ovovitelloducts entering the female atrium anteriorly and not posteriorly as in Bipalium.

The genus Humbertium is named after the Swiss naturalist Aloïs Humbert who described several species from Sri Lanka that are now classified in the genus.

The genus Humbertium contains the following species:



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