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TABLE 2. — Comparison between Aberrantidrilus n in Groundwater oligochaetes (Annelida, Clitellata) from the Mercantour National Park (France), with the descriptions of one new genus and two new stygobiont species

  • 1. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie des Eaux douces, 29 rue Vautier, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium) patrick. martin @ naturalsciences. be
  • 2. ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, 61459 FlÖrsheim (Germany) and Universidad de A Coruña, Fac. Ciencias, Departamento Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal, y Ecología, Rua da Fraga 10, E- 15008 A Coruña (Spain) r. schmelz @ ect. de
  • 3. Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5023, LEHNA, Laboratoire d'Écologie des Hydrosystèmes naturels et anthropisés, Bâtiment Forel, F- 69622 Villeurbanne cedex (France) marie-jose. olivier @ univ-lyon 1. fr Published on 31 December 2015

Description

TABLE 2. — Comparison between Aberrantidrilus n. gen. species (type specimens and other material from Sambugar et al. 1999).

CharacterAberrantidrilus stephaniae, Martin, n. gen., n. sp.A. subterraneus (Rodriguez & Giani, 1989) n. comb.A. cuspis (Erséus & Dumnicka, 1988) n. comb.A. cf. cuspis
“La Spezia” n. comb.“Udine” n. comb.“Aven de la Cuisinière” n. comb.“Romana” n. comb.“Skocjanske” n. comb.
body width at largest (µm)139-164127.5190-280 –128–––
penial setaepresentpresentpresent presentpresentpresent–present
number of penial setae1 per bundle1 per bundle1 per bundle 1 per bundle 1 per bundle 1 per bundle–1 (2) per bundle
length of penial50-64?100-120 75-775057-60––
setae (µm) width of penial setae (µm)3.3-3.51.55-7 3.5-4.0–3.5––
length of somatic setae (µm)38-4331.5-35.740-55 42–47––
width of somatic setae (µm)1.5?2.5-5.0 ––1.5––
ectal tip of penial setabifidsimple pointedsimple bifid pointedbifidbifid–bifid
length of upper tooth of setae in anterior segmentssubequal or similar to lowerreducedsubequal subequal or similar or similar to lower to lowersubequal or similar to lowersubequal or similar to lowersubequal or similar to lowersubequal or similar to lower
length of upper tooth of setae in posterior segmentssubequal or similar than lowerreducedreduced; reduced; absent absentreduced; absentabsentabsentabsent
length ratio penial/ somatic setaeMean:1.39?Mean:2.32 Mean:1.81–Mean:1.24––
number of setae in anterior segments2-52-52-5 –3-6–––
number of setae in posterior1-332-4 –––––
segments atrial length (µm)207-287100275-350 –––––
atrial width (µm)39-473028-40 –––––
location of spermathecal ampullain XII-XIIIin XIIin XII-XIII –––––
longitudinal location near middle of spermathecal of XII porenear 11/12near middle – of XII––near 11/12–

Notes

Published as part of Martin, Patrick, Schmelz, Rüdiger M. & Dole-Olivier, Marie-José, 2015, Groundwater oligochaetes (Annelida, Clitellata) from the Mercantour National Park (France), with the descriptions of one new genus and two new stygobiont species, pp. 558 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 558, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a2, http://zenodo.org/record/5156779

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