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Glossoscolex Leuckart 1835
Description
Genus Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 (in Froriep 1835)
Diagnosis. Setae in 8 longitudinal lines. One pair of intraclitellar male pores, rarely preclitellar, or a single intraclitellar male pore, but always paired copulatory bulbs. One pair of calciferous glands in xi or xii with composite-tubular structure. Sexual system metandric and metagynic; seminal vesicles in general long; a pair of copulatory bulbs connecting sperm ducts and the external male genital pores; spermathecae absent.
Type species. Glossoscolex giganteus Leuckart, 1836 (in Oken 1836)
Notes
Published as part of Bartz, Marie Luise Carolina, James, Samuel Wooster, Pasini, Amarildo & Brown, George Gardner, 2012, New earthworm species of Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 and Fimoscolex Michaelsen, 1900 (Clitellata: Glossoscolecidae) from Northern Paraná, Brazil, pp. 59-85 in Zootaxa 3458 on pages 60-61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282225
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Leuckart
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Haplotaxida
- Family
- Glossoscolecidae
- Genus
- Glossoscolex
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 sec. Bartz, James, Pasini & Brown, 2012
References
- Froriep L. F. (1835) Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Bonn, im September 1835. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 46, 82 - 96.