An integrative taxonomic approach reveals unexplored diversity in Croatian planarians
Miquel Vila‐Farré, Jeremias N. Brand, Tobias Boothe, Maren Brockmeyer, Fruzsina Ficze-Schmidt, Markus A. Grohme, Uri Weill, Kasper H. Kluiver, Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Lucija Kauf, Yuliia Kanana, Helena Bilandžija, Marta Riutort, Jochen Christian Rink
Degenerate COI primers combined with histology, karyology and transcriptomics raise the known Croatian freshwater planarian species from eight to sixteen and describe Dendrocoelum pigmentatum sp. nov.
Frontiers in Zoology · Mar 16, 2026Peer-reviewedZoology✦ In-depth digest