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Diporodemus
Sign in to saveDiporodemus is a genus of land planarians found in the Americas.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Geoplanidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Geoplanidae
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- taxon name
- Diporodemus
- taxon rank
- genus
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Diporodemus is a genus of land planarians found in the Americas.
== Description == The genus Diporodemus is characterized by the copulatory apparatus having a large seminal bursa (or bursa copulatrix) connected to the vagina by a canal, called Beauchamp's canal. This bursa also opens to the exterior by a canal and a pore situated behind the common gonopore.
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