Neppia is a genus of dugesiid triclad that is found in South America, Subantarctic region, Africa, Tasmania and New Zealand.Sluys, R.; Kawakatsu, M. 2001: Contribution to an inventory of the freshwater planarians of Australia and New Zealand (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae), with distribution maps of the species examined. Beaufortia, 51: 163-198
Until 1974 Neppia was considered a subgenus of Dugesia.Ball, I. R. 1974. A new genus of freshwater triclad from Tasmania with reviews of the related genera Cura and Neppia (Turbellaria, Tricladida). Life Sci. Contr. R. Ont. Mus. No. 99:1-48.
Phylogeny and taxonomy Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008:
Species
Neppia evelinae (Marcus, 1955) Neppia falklandica (Westblad, 1952) Neppia jeanneli (Beauchamp, 1913) Neppia magnibursalis Sluys & Kawakatsu, 2001 Neppia montana (Nurse, 1950) Neppia paeta (Marcus, 1955) Neppia tinga (Marcus, 1955) Neppia wimbimba (Marcus, 1970)
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