Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835

Feijoo-Martínez, Alexander & Brown, George G., 2023, Three new Glossoscolex (Annelida: Crassiclitellata: Glossoscolecidae) in the truncatus group from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Zootaxa 5255 (1), pp. 220-234 : 222

Genus Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 (in Froriep 1835).

Type species. Glossoscolex (Glossoscolex) giganteus Leuckart, 1836 (in Oken 1836)

Diagnosis. Setae in 8 longitudinal lines. One pair of male pores. One pair of calciferous glands in segment 11 or 12 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.

Number of described species/subspecies: 58 (including the ones in the present paper). Distribution (No. species/subspecies): Brazil (48), Argentina (6), Paraguay (4), Uruguay (4) (updated from Feijoo & Brown 2018). In a few cases (5) species have been found in more than one country ( Fragoso & Brown 2007).