Newzealandia

Newzealandia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Rhabditophora
Order:	Tricladida
Suborder:	Continenticola
Family:	Geoplanidae
Subfamily:	Rhynchodeminae
Tribe:	Caenoplanini
Genus:	Newzealandia Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1991
Type species
Geoplana inaequabilis Fyfe, 1956

Newzealandia is a genus of land planarians from the New Zealand.

Species of Newzealandia are characterized by a copulatory apparatus that lacks a penis papilla and has a series of accessory glands embedded into the wall of the atrial cavity. Those glands are similar to the adenodactyls found in the closely related genus Artioposthia, the main difference being that adenodactyls project into the atrial cavity.

The name Newzealandia comes from New Zealand, the country in which the species of the genus are found.

The genus Newzealandia includes the following species:

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