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In the molecular phylogenetic tree, the two new species, <jats:italic>Dugesia saccata<\/jats:italic> Chen &amp; Dong, <jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> and <jats:italic>Dugesia aconcinna<\/jats:italic> Chen &amp; Dong, <jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold>, fall into an Eastern Palearctic\/Oriental clade and an Oriental\/Australasian clade, respectively, while sharing only a rather distant relationship. 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penis papilla of a very characteristic shape, with the part housing the connecting duct, diaphragm, and ejaculatory duct being a cylindrical structure with a blunt tip, while at its right-hand side sits a large penial fold that attaches to the base of the penis papilla; ejaculatory duct following a ventrally displaced course through the penis papilla, after which it opens at the tip of the papilla; presence of a duct between diaphragm and seminal vesicle.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1233.142976","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,1]],"date-time":"2025-04-01T12:07:40Z","timestamp":1743509260000},"page":"289-313","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Two new species of freshwater planarian from Hainan Island and Leizhou Peninsula, southern China (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1233","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2328-1530","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Lei","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-1018-8392","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Yi-Fang","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8167-1495","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Xin-Xin","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9776-3471","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ronald","family":"Sluys","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9354-2073","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"De-Zeng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6416-590X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Zi-Mei","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8723-523X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Guang-Wen","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"142976_B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkq291"},{"key":"142976_B2","first-page":"139","article-title":"New planarians (Turbellaria, Tricladida) from Israel and Lebanon.","volume":"37","author":"Bromley","year":"1991","journal-title":"Israel Journal of Zoology"},{"key":"142976_B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.879.34404"},{"key":"142976_B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s40850-022-00127-8"},{"key":"142976_B5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/26660644-05401008"},{"key":"142976_B6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2010-11-4-r37"},{"key":"142976_B7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/zoolinnean\/zlad135"},{"key":"142976_B8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/zoolinnean\/zlae080"},{"key":"142976_B9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.17109\/AZH.63.3.263.2017"},{"key":"142976_B10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/bk-1999-0734.ch008"},{"key":"142976_B11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2108\/zsj.30.502"},{"key":"142976_B12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00441-014-1971-0"},{"key":"142976_B13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/molbev\/msx281"},{"key":"142976_B14","first-page":"45","article-title":"A new fresh-water triclad from Japan.","volume":"24","author":"Kato","year":"1950","journal-title":"Annotationes Zoologicae Japonensis"},{"key":"142976_B15","first-page":"1","article-title":"A commentary on the late Dr. K. 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