Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.38 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5950235 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E187ED-FF96-290F-FF4E-3D44FA99DB51 |
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Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 |
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Genus Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 (in Froriep 1835)
Type species: Glossoscolex giganteus Leuckart, 1835 .
Diagnosis. Setae in 8 longitudinal lines. One pair of male pores. One pair of calciferous glands in 11th or 12th segment with composite-tubular structure. Sexual system metandric and metagynic; seminal vesicles generally long; a pair of copulatory bulbs connecting sperm ducts and the external male genital pores; spermathacae absent.
Number of described species/subspecies: 55 (including the ones in the present paper and Bartz et al. 2018, this volume). Distribution (No. species/subspecies): Argentina (6), Brazil (48), Paraguay (4), Uruguay (4) ( Fragoso & Brown 2007; Bartz et al. 2018). Five species are known from more than one country ( Fragoso & Brown 2007).
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Oligochaeta |
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