Australopacifica

Australopacifica is a genus of land planarians of the tribe Caenoplanini.

It was erected to include species lacking sufficient morphological information to allow them to be classified in the appropriate genus.

[1] Australopacifica atrata (Steel, 1897), a species originally described from New South Wales, Australia has invaded the United Kingdom since 2015.

As a result, species with old descriptions that were never redescribed, so that their internal anatomy remains unknown, cannot be assigned to the correct genus.

Thus, the genus Australopacifica was erected to temporarily accommodate species of the tribe Caenoplanini, whose anatomy of the copulatory apparatus is still unknown.