Published February 19, 2025 | Version v1
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Fimoscolex Michaelsen 1900

  • 1. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Ciência do Solo, Rua dos Funcionários, 1540, Juvevê, 80035 - 0050, Brazil
  • 2. Regenerative Agriculture Department, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA
  • 3. Centro Municipal de Cultura de Desenvolvimento - Organic Farming: Parceria para Agricultura e Produção Biológica, Centro de Agricultura Regenerativa e Biológica, Centro Empresarial, Zona Industrial, Portugal & Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 4. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Ciência do Solo, Rua dos Funcionários, 1540, Juvevê, 80035 - 0050, Brazil & Embrapa Florestas, Estrada da Ribeira, Km 111, Caixa Postal 319, CEP 83411 - 000, Colombo-PR, Brazil

Description

Genus Fimoscolex Michaelsen, 1900

Diagnosis. Eight lines of longitudinal setae. Single intraclitellar male pore and single copulatory bulb. Single pair of calciferous glands in segments XI or XII, of composite tubular type. Metandric and metagynic sexual system; frequently long seminal vesicles; spermathecae absent.

Type species. Fimoscolex ohausi Michaelsen, 1900.

Notes

Published as part of Dudas, Rafaela Tavares, James, Samuel Wooster, Bartz, Marie L. C. & Brown, George Gardner, 2025, New earthworm species of Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 and Fimoscolex Michaelsen, 1900 (Clitellata: Glossoscolecidae) from southeastern Brazil, pp. 321-345 in Zootaxa 5589 (1) on page 327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.26, http://zenodo.org/record/14897150

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