Schmidtea
{{Short description|Genus of flatworms}}
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| image_caption = Schmidtea mediterranea
| taxon = Schmidtea
| authority = Ball, 1974
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Schmidtea is a genus of freshwater triclads. Species of the genus Schmidtea are widely used in regeneration and developmental studies.{{Cite journal | last1 = Saló | first1 = E. | last2 = Baguñà | first2 = J. | doi = 10.1002/jez.90001 | title = Regeneration in planarians and other worms: New findings, new tools, and new perspectives | journal = Journal of Experimental Zoology | volume = 292 | issue = 6 | pages = 528–539 | year = 2002 | pmid = 12115936}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Reddien | first1 = P. W. | last2 = Alvarado | first2 = A. S. N. | doi = 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.20.010403.095114 | title = Fundamentals of Planarian Regeneration | journal = Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology | volume = 20 | pages = 725–757 | year = 2004 | pmid = 15473858}}
Until 1991, Schmidtea was considered as a subgenus of Dugesia, then it was elevated to the genus rank.{{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 }}
Etymology
The genus was presumably named after Eduard Oscar Schmidt, who described two species within the genus.{{Cite book |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17946233W/Biology_of_the_Turbellaria?edition=key%3A/books/OL5420434M |title=Biology of the Turbellaria. |publisher=McGraw-Hill |year=1974 |isbn=0070529477 |editor-last=Riser |editor-first=Nathan W. |volume=Libbie H. Hyman memorial volume |location=New York |pages=377–378 |language=en |lccn=73013695 |oclc=698756 |ol=5420434M |access-date=2023-06-26 |editor-last2=Morse |editor-first2=M. Patricia |via=Open Library}}
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008:{{Cite journal | last1 = Álvarez-Presas | first1 = M. | last2 = Baguñà | first2 = J. | last3 = Riutort | first3 = M. | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032 | title = Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 555–568 | year = 2008 | pmid = 18359250}}
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