Diversity and areas of endemism of land planarians in the Southern Atlantic forest and their causal factors

• Grant number: 16/18295-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: February 01, 2017 - January 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Jesús Carbayo Baz
• Grantee: Fernando Jesús Carbayo Baz
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Marcio Bernardino da Silva ; Marta Riutort León

Abstract

The biota of the Atlantic forest is not evenly distributed but structured in areas of endemism as a result of their isolation. The identification of barriers is an essential component to understand the origin and evolution of organisms and propose measures for their conservation. These areas of endemism vary in number and size, depending on the taxonomic group studied and the methodology employed. The so-called area of endemism Serra do Mar (which spreads from the State of ES to RS), is incongruent with different studies in its southern boundary. Biogeography of organisms with low vagility, and high sensivity to environmental changes such as land planarians (Platyhelminthes), can contribute to this debate and also to detect priority areas for biological conservation. Parsimony analysis of endemicity and analysis of endemicity of flatworms fauna from six areas will be applied within the focal region, this delimited between SP and RS States. Molecular phylogenetic analyses (maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference) of widespread groups are aimed at determining relationship hypotheses of the areas of endemism. To detect which areas should be given priority for conservation, the environmental quality of them will be compared through indexes of diversity, similarity, and relative endemism. Almost all specimens have been collected already. The species will be delimited both morphologically (histology) and molecularly (Bayesian Phylogenetics and phylogeography, Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent), and a portion will be described formally. Two specialists in endemism and molecular analyses, respectively, and a doctoral student (on a CNPq scholarship) will collaborate with the project. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RANELLI, BEATRIZ ELIAS; DE FREITAS, PEDRO M.; CARBAYO, FERNANDO. Cataloguing Prof. Eudoxia M. Froehlich's wet collection of land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae): a bounty of type specimens of 78 species. Zootaxa, v. 4779, n. 1, p. 101-110, MAY 18 2020. (16/18295-5)

SILVA, M. S.; WILLEMART, R. H.; CARBAYO, F.. Sticky flatworms (Platyhelminthes) kill armored harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) but are not immune to the preys weapons. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, v. 306, n. 2, p. 88-94, OCT 2018. (15/01518-9, 16/18295-5)

LAGO-BARCIA, DOMINGO; CARBAYO, FERNANDO. Taxonomic revision of four species of the Neotropical land planarian genera Cratera and Geoplana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) with a description of two new species and an emendation of Cratera. Zootaxa, v. 4500, n. 4, p. 517-542, OCT 18 2018. (16/18295-5)

SILVA, MARCOS SANTOS; CARBAYO, FERNANDO. X-ray microcomputed tomography applied to the taxonomic study of rare material: redescriptions of seven of Schirch's Brazilian species of land planarians (Geoplanidae, Platyhelminthes). ZOOKEYS, n. 910, p. 1-42, FEB 10 2020. (16/18295-5, 17/05760-4)

BULNES, VERONICA N.; GRAU, JOSE H.; CARBAYO, FERNANDO. A new Chilean genus and species of land planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida, Geoplaninae) with cephalic retractor muscle and adenodactyl. Journal of Natural History, v. 52, n. 39-40, p. 2553-2566, OCT 26 2018. (16/18295-5)

GOULART ARAUJO, ANA PAULA; CARBAYO, FERNANDO; RIUTORT, MARTA; ALVAREZ-PRESAS, MARTA. Five new pseudocryptic land planarian species of Cratera (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) unveiled through integrative taxonomy. PeerJ, v. 8, SEP 4 2020. (16/18295-5, 19/12357-7)

CARBAYO, FERNANDO; SILVA, MARCOS SANTOS; RIUTORT, MARTA; ALVAREZ-PRESAS, MARTA. Rolling into the deep of the land planarian genus Choeradoplana (Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) taxonomy. ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION, v. 18, n. 2, p. 187-210, JUN 2018. (16/18295-5)

DE OLIVEIRA, KARINE GOBETTI; CARBAYO, FERNANDO. A catalogue of Eudoxia M. Froehlich's collection of planarians (Platyhelminthes) with emphasis on type specimens on histological slides. Zootaxa, v. 4564, n. 1, p. 271-282, MAR 5 2019. (16/18295-5)

GOULART ARAUJO, ANA PAULA; CARBAYO, FERNANDO. A new species of the land planarian Issoca sheds light on the polyphyletic status of the genus (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplaninae). ZOOKEYS, n. 752, p. 1-15, APR 23 2018. (16/18295-5)