Neppia

{{Short description|Genus of flatworms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Neppia

| authority = Ball, 1974

| subdivision =

see text*Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 [http://devbio.umesci.maine.edu/styler/turbellaria/turbella.php Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204120756/http://devbio.umesci.maine.edu/styler/turbellaria/turbella.php |date=2012-02-04 }}

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Neppia is a genus of dugesiid triclad that is found in South America, Subantarctic region, Africa, Tasmania and New Zealand.{{Cite journal | last1 = De Vries | first1 = E. J. | last2 = Sluys | first2 = R. | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04752.x | title = Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola) | journal = Journal of Zoology | volume = 223 | issue = 1| pages = 103–116| year = 1991 }}Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M. 2001: Contribution to an inventory of the freshwater planarians of Australia and New Zealand (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae), with distribution maps of the species examined. Beaufortia, 51: 163-198

Until 1974 Neppia was considered a subgenus of Dugesia.Ball, I. R. 1974. A new genus of freshwater triclad from Tasmania with reviews of the related genera Cura and Neppia (Turbellaria, Tricladida). Life Sci. Contr. R. Ont. Mus. No. 99:1-48.