# Lake Pedder planarian

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The **Lake Pedder planarian** (*Romankenkius pedderensis*) is a species of [invertebrate](/source/Invertebrate) in the family [Dugesiidae](/source/Dugesiidae).[1] This species was gregarious within the aquatic community of the lake before it flooded, living alongside small fish and invertebrates such as the [Pedder galaxias](/source/Pedder_galaxias) and [Lake Pedder earthworm](/source/Lake_Pedder_earthworm).[2]

## Distribution and conservation status

The species is [endemic](/source/Endemism) to the [Lake Pedder](/source/Lake_Pedder) area in [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania), Australia. This species has been listed as extinct by the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/IUCN_Red_List_of_Threatened_Species) in the past, but live specimens of this species were collected in 2006[3][failed verification] and the ongoing existence of the species was again confirmed in 2012.[4]

## References

1. Sluys, Ronald; Kawakatsu, Masaharu; Riutort, Marta; Baguñà, Jaume (2009). "A new higher classification of planarian flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)". *Journal of Natural History*. **43** (29–30): 1763–1777. [Bibcode:2009JNatH..43.1763S](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JNatH..43.1763S). [doi:10.1080/00222930902741669](https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930902741669). [S2CID 85174457](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:85174457)

1. Vos, Rick De (2019-09-25). ["Inundation, Extinction and Lacustrine Lives"](https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/6394). *Cultural Studies Review*. **25** (1): 102–118. [doi:10.5130/csr.v25i1.6394](https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i1.6394). [ISSN 1837-8692](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1837-8692)

1. Grant, Lauryne J.; Sluys, Ronald; Blair, David (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. [Bibcode:2006SyBio...4..435G](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SyBio...4..435G). [doi:10.1017/S1477200006002064](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477200006002064). [S2CID 86477420](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:86477420)

1. Forteath, GNR & Osborn, AW (2012). ["Survival of endemic invertebrates of Lake Pedder and Lake Edgar subsequent to inundation"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57547527). *Records of the Queen Victoria Museum*. **116**

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