Dugesia japonica
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| Two headed D. japonica that regenerated from a trunk fragment exposed to Praziquantel.[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Tricladida |
| Family: | Dugesiidae |
| Genus: | Dugesia |
| Species: | D. japonica
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| Binomial name | |
| Dugesia japonica Ichikawa & Kawakatsu, 1964
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Dugesia japonica is a
polyphyletic and different populations across its area of occurrence constitute distinct species.[3]
Phylogeny
D. japonica position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009:[4]
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Space Experimentation
A study was published in 2017 in which a Dugesia Japonica trunk fragment had been sent into space, and grew with two heads, one on either end of the trunk.[5] However, the influence of space conditions on this phenomenon is debated.[6]
References
Wikispecies has information related to Dugesia japonica.
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