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Pseudobiceros

Pseudobiceros

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Pseudobiceros is a genus of flatworms. Like all flatworms, Pseudobiceros are hermaphrodites. This particular genus engages in penis fencing. When the "winner" touches its penis to the "skin" of the other, insemination occurs, and the "loser" has to bear the burden of motherhood.^[2]^[3]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Pseudobiceros:^[4]

Pseudobiceros apricus Newman & Cannon, 1994
Pseudobiceros bajae (Hyman, 1953)
Pseudobiceros bedfordi (Laidlaw, 1903)
Pseudobiceros brogani Newman & Cannon, 1997
Pseudobiceros caribbensis Bolanos, Quiroga & Litvaitis, 2007
Pseudobiceros cinereus (Palombi, 1931)
Pseudobiceros damawan Newman & Cannon, 1994
Pseudobiceros dendriticus (Prudhoe, 1989)
Pseudobiceros flavocanthus Newman & Cannon, 1994
Pseudobiceros flavolineatus (Prudhoe, 1989)
Pseudobiceros flowersi Newman & Cannon, 1997
Pseudobiceros fulgor Newman & Cannon, 1994
Pseudobiceros fulvogriseus (Hyman, 1959)
Pseudobiceros gardinieri (Laidlaw, 1902)
Pseudobiceros gloriosus (Newman & Cannon, 1994)
Pseudobiceros gratus (Kato, 1937)
Pseudobiceros hancockanus (Collingwood, 1876)^[5]
Pseudobiceros izuensis (Kato, 1944)
Pseudobiceros kryptos Newman & Cannon, 1997
Pseudobiceros mikros Newman & Cannon, 1997
Pseudobiceros miniatus (Schmarda, 1859)
Pseudobiceros murinus Newman & Cannon, 1997
Pseudobiceros nigromarginatus (Yeri & Kaburaki, 1918)
Pseudobiceros pardalis (Verrill, 1900)
Pseudobiceros philippinensis (Kaburaki, 1923)
Pseudobiceros principensis Pérez-García, Herrero-Barrencua, Noreña & Cervera, 2020
Pseudobiceros rubrocinctus (Schmarda, 1859)
Pseudobiceros schmardae Faubel, 1984
Pseudobiceros sharroni Newman & Cannon, 1997
Pseudobiceros splendidus (Lang, 1884)
Pseudobiceros stellae Newman & Cannon, 1994
Pseudobiceros undulatus (Kelaart, 1858)
Pseudobiceros uniarborensis Newman & Cannon, 1994
Pseudobiceros viridis (Kelaart, 1858)
Pseudobiceros wirtzi Bahia & Schroedl, 2016

References

^ Faubel, A. (1984). "The Polycladida, Turbellaria; Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part 2. The Cotylea". Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 81: 189–259.
^ Michiels, N.K., and L.J. Newman. (1998). Sex and violence in hermaphrodites. Nature 391:647.
^ Hermaphrodites duel for manhood, Science News Online. Accessed 14 March 2009.
^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984".
^ Collingwood, Cuthbert (1876). "VI. On thirty-one Species of Marine Planarians, collected partly by the late Dr. Kelaart, F.L.S., at Trincomalee, and partly by Dr. Collingwood, F.L.S., in the Eastern Seas". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series. Zoology. 1 (3): 83–98. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb00435.x.

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Pseudobiceros: Brief Summary

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Pseudobiceros is a genus of flatworms. Like all flatworms, Pseudobiceros are hermaphrodites. This particular genus engages in penis fencing. When the "winner" touches its penis to the "skin" of the other, insemination occurs, and the "loser" has to bear the burden of motherhood.

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