Rhynchodemus costaricensis, Boll & Luna, 2025

Boll, Piter Kehoma & Luna, Manuel De, 2025, Diversity of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) in Central America: annotated checklist with new records of native and introduced species from citizen science, Zootaxa 5695 (1), pp. 1-70 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5695.1.1
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhynchodemus costaricensis
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Microplana costaricensis ( de Beauchamp, 1913) View in CoL

de Beauchamp (1913, as Rhynchodemus costaricensis n. sp.: 42–44, fig. 1; COSTA RICA: Cartago and Orosi)

External diagnosis ( de Beauchamp 1913): 10–12 mm long, with a cylindrical body 0.7–0.8 mm in diameter. Color uniformly tawny brown, with a narrow yellowish-white creeping sole. The pharynx lies slightly behind the middle of the body ( Figure 29b View FIGURE 29 ).