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Metaphire californica
- 1. Soil and Water Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran. frejali @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6570 - 9430
- 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.
- 3. Soil and Water Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran. Noblesse 55 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1326 - 9397
Description
Metaphire californica (Kinberg)
Diagnosis: Length 60–65 mm, diameter 2–3 mm. Color pale. Setae numerous. Clitellum annular on segments 14–16. Female pore unpaired mid-ventral on segment 14. Combined male and prostatic pores on segment 18. Intestinal caeca simple, spermathecal pores in lateroventral intersegments 7/8/9. Genital markings absent in both spermathecal and male regions (Figure 2C).
Habitat: Common in grassy and woody area.
Material examined: CCSM-E 000081.2 ex. Guilan Province, Lahijan, 19.10.2019. Leg. R. Latif,A. Esmaeilizad; CCSM-E 000082.2 ex. Guilan Province, Fuman, 29.09.2019. Leg. R. Latif, A. Esmaeilizad.
Notes
Published as part of Latif, Robabeh, Rejali, Farhad, Aminjan, Atabak Roohi & Esmaeilizad, Ashraf, 2021, New earthworm records from the Caspian Hyrcanian Forests of Iran (Oligochaeta: Megadrili), pp. 433-440 in Zootaxa 5052 (3) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5572244
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CCSM-E , R
- Material sample ID
- CCSM-E 000081.2 , CCSM-E 000082.2
- Event date
- 2019-09-29 , 2019-10-19
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-09-29 , 2019-10-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Kinberg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Metaphire
- Species
- californica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metaphire californica (Kinberg, 1867) sec. Latif, Rejali, Aminjan & Esmaeilizad, 2021