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Parachilota homoeoticus Pickford 1937

Description

Parachilota homoeoticus Pickford, 1937

Parachilota homoeoticus Pickford, 1937: 210.

Parachilota homoeoticus: Reynolds & Cook 1976: 114; BMNH.

Type locality. WC, Bains ‘kloof’, near Wellington.

Remarks. Pickford (1937: 210) under heading “ Parachilota homoeoticus ” gives a short key based on position of nephridial pores and shape of penial setae to distinct two subspecies P. homoeoticus homoeoticus and P. homoeoticus hibernaculi, then described in detail. Paratypes BMNH 1938.7.1.871–872.

Notes

Published as part of Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2012, An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae), pp. 4-58 in Zootaxa 3458 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282224

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Acanthodrilidae
Genus
Parachilota
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Crassiclitellata
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Pickford
Species
homoeoticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Parachilota homoeoticus Pickford, 1937 sec. Plisko, 2012

References

  • Pickford, G. E. (1937) A monograph of the Acanthodriline earthworms of South Africa. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 612 pp.
  • Reynolds J. W. & Cook, D. G. (1976) Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica. A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. Ottawa: Runge Press. 217 pp.