Continenticola

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Continenticola.jpg

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| image_caption = From upper left: Dugesia subtentaculata, a dugesiid; Dendrocoelum cavaticum, a Dendrocoelidae; Platydemus manokwari, a Geoplanidae; and Polycelis felina, a Planariidae.

| taxon = Continenticola

| authority = Carranza et al., 1998{{Cite journal | last1 = Carranza | first1 = S. | last2 = Littlewood | first2 = D. T.| last3 = Clough | first3 = K. A. | last4 = Ruiz-Trillo | first4 = I. | last5 = Baguñà | first5 = J. | last6 = Riutort | first6 = M. | doi = 10.1098/rspb.1998.0341 | title = A robust molecular phylogeny of the Tricladida (Platyhelminthes: Seriata) with a discussion on morphological synapomorphies | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | volume = 265 | issue = 1396 | pages = 631–640 | year = 1998 | pmid = 9881470 | pmc = 1689013}}

| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies and families

| subdivision_ref = {{Cite journal | last1 = Sluys | first1 = R. | last2 = Kawakatsu | first2 = M. | last3 = Riutort | first3 = M. | last4 = Baguñà | first4 = J. | title = A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) | doi = 10.1080/00222930902741669 | journal = Journal of Natural History | volume = 43 | issue = 29–30 | pages = 1763–1777| year = 2009 }}

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Continenticola is a clade that includes the land planarians (Geoplanidae) and the freshwater triclads (Dendrocoelidae, Dugesiidae, Kenkiidae and Planariidae).

Phylogeny

On the basis of molecular evidences, Carranza and colleagues suggested in 1998 that the families of freshwater and land flatworms must be grouped together in a monophyletic group that they coined Continenticola. This grouping was accepted by Ronald Sluys in 2009. Despite the molecular evidences, there are no morphological apomorphies supporting this clade.

Phylogenetic supertree after Sluys et al., 2009:

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|label1=Tricladida

|1={{Clade

|1=Maricola

|2={{Clade

|1=Cavernicola

|label2=Continenticola

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|label1=Planarioidea

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|1=Planariidae