Timyma

The genus Timyma includes planarians of elongate body and spatula-like anterior end. Although most land planarians native from South America have dorsal testes, Timyma has ventral testes, which at first suggested that it is related to the Australasia species of the tribe Caenoplanini.{{cite journal | last1 = Froehlich | first1 = Eudóxia M. | title = On a collection of Chilean landplanarians | journal = Boletim de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo | year = 1978 | volume = 3 | pages = 7–80}} However, the longitudinal cutaneous musculature of Timyma is very weak, differently from other genera in this tribe.{{cite journal | last1 = Ogren | first1 = R. E. | last2 = Kawakatsu | first2 = M. | year = 1991 | title = Index to the species of the family Geoplanidae (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Terricola) Part II: Caenoplaninae and Pelmatoplaninae | journal = Bulletin of Fujis Women's College | volume = 29 | pages = 35–58 | url = http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110008426083/en}}{{open access}} However, molecular studies confirmed that it is more closely related to other land planarians in South America, having a sister-group relationship with the subfamily Geoplaninae.{{cite journal | last1 = Almeida | first1 = Ana Laura | last2 = Francoy | first2 = Tiago Maurício | last3 = Álvarez‐Presas | first3 = Marta | last4 = Carbayo | first4 = Fernando | title = Convergent evolution: A new subfamily for bipaliin‐like Chilean land planarians (platyhelminthes) | journal = Zoologica Scripta | date = 4 February 2021 | volume = 50 | issue = 4 | pages = 500–508 | issn = 0300-3256 | eissn = 1463-6409 | doi = 10.1111/zsc.12479 | pmid = | url = }} The copulatory apparatus lacks adenodactyls and a permanent penis papilla.

There are currently two species recognised in the genus Timyma:

• Timyma juliae Froehlich, 1978
• Timyma olmuensis Almeida & Carbayo, 2021

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Category:Geoplanidae

Category:Rhabditophora genera