Planaria torva — The Life Data

Animalia/Platyhelminthes/Tricladida/Planariidae/Planaria

At a glance

Occurrence records976

Data sources5

Biological traits2

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Planaria torva's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility976 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF976 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Planaria torva is a species of planarian in the family Planariidae. When an individual is cut into pieces, each piece has the ability to regenerate into a fully formed individual.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

05DNA & barcoding3 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Planaria torva has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

Countries1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type976 records

Wild obs. + sensor689

Museum / vouchered287

Origin

Introduced26

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO2 060 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy91% within 1 km

≤100 m 499≤1 km 31≤10 km 55

585 georeferenced · 104 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor689

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy95% within 1 km

≤100 m 202≤1 km 34≤10 km 9>10 km 4

249 georeferenced · 38 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence287

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 8 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record	46
Helsinki, FI	36
DEMNA-DNElocation not on record	26
Stockholm, SE	23
730location not on record	3
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record	3
NTNU-VMlocation not on record	1
Copenhagen, DK	1

8 institutions · 139 of 287 vouchered records shown · 148 without an institution code