Ronald Sluys

Ronald Sluys, Dutch helminthologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Grant, L.J., Sluys, R. & Blair, D. 2006. Biodiversity of Australian freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Paludicola): new species and localities, and a review of paludicolan distribution in Australia. Systematics and biodiversity 4(4): 435–471. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200006002064 ResearchGate Reference page.

Sluys, R., Grant, L.J. & Blair, D. 2007. Freshwater planarians from artesian springs in Queensland, Australia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola). Contributions to Zoology 76(1): 9–19. PDF Reference page.

Sluys, R., Kawakatsu, M., Riutort, M. & Baguñà, J. 2009. A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida). Journal of Natural History 43(29–30): 1763–1777. DOI: 10.1080/00222930902741669 . Reference page.

Harrath, A.H., Sluys, R., Merzoug, D., Yacoubi-Khebiza, M., Alwasel, S. & Riutort, M. 2012. Freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from the Palearctic section of the African continent: new records, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3182: 1–15. Preview Reference page.

Solà, E., Sluys, R., Segev, O., Blaustein, L. & Riutort, M. 2015: The taxonomic status of Dugesia biblica from Israel and Turkey (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae). Zookeys 506: 1-12. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.506.9663 Full article view Reference page.

Mazza, G., Menchetti, M., Sluys, R., Solà, E., Riutort, M., Tricarico, E., Justine, J-L., Cavigioli, L. & Mori, E. 2016. First report of the land planarian Diversibipalium multilineatum (Makino & Shirasawa, 1983) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) in Europe. Zootaxa 4067(5): 577–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Sluys, R., Neumann, M., Lima, R.F. de & Drewes, R.C. 2017. Land flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) of São Tomé: a first account on their diversity, with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 4221(3): 291–322. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.3.2 Reference page.
Stocchino, G.A., Sluys, R., Montanari, A. & Manconi, R. 2017. A new species of stygobiont freshwater planarian (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from a chemoautotrophic ecosystem: the Frasassi karst in Italy. Zootaxa 4323(4): 547–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.7. Reference page.

Yang, H-M., Sluys, R., Kawakatsu, M. & Min, G-S. 2018. New molecular sequences for two genera of marine planarians facilitate determination of their position in the phylogenetic tree, with new records for two species (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Maricola). ZooKeys 781: 1–17. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.778.26324 Reference page.

Chen, J-J., Li, W-X., Sluys, R., Wu, M-Q., Wang, L., Li, S-F. & Wang, A-T. 2019. Two new species of marine flatworm from southern China facilitate determination of the phylogenetic position of the genus Nerpa Marcus, 1948 and the histochemical structure of the nervous system in the genus Paucumara Sluys, 1989 (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Maricola). Zootaxa 4568(1): 149–167. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.1.9 Reference page.
Sluys, R. 2019. The evolutionary terrestrialization of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae): a review and research programme. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 95(2): 543–556. DOI: 10.3897/zse.95.38727 Reference page.
Sluys, R. & Laumer. C. 2019. A new genus and species of a terrestrial cavernicolan planarian from Barro Colorado Island, Panama (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Cavernicola). Zootaxa 4586(1): 187–193. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.1.12 Reference page.

Dorigo, L., Lago, T.D., Menchetti, M. & Sluys, R. 2020. First records of two alien land flatworms (Tricladida, Geoplanidae) from Northeastern Italy. Zootaxa 4732(2): 332–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.2.8 Reference page.
Song, X.-Y., Li, W.-X., Sluys, R., Huang, S.-X., Li, S.-F., Wang, A.-T. 2020. A new species of Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae) from China, with an account on the histochemical structure of its major nervous system. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96(2): 431-447. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.52484 Reference page.

Wang, L., Chen, J-Z., Dong, Z-M., Chen, G-W., Sluys, R. & Liu, D-Z. 2021. Two new species of Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae) from the tropical monsoon forest in southern China. Zookeys 1059ː 89–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1059.65633 Reference page.
Wang, L., Dong, Z-M., Chen, G-W., Sluys, R. & Liu, D-Z. 2021. Integrative descriptions of two new species of Dugesia from Hainan Island, China (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae). Zookeys 1028: 1–28. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1028.60838 Reference page.