Sylphella, Rodriguez, Pilar, Fend, Steven V. & Lenat, David R., 2014

Rodriguez, Pilar, Fend, Steven V. & Lenat, David R., 2014, Sylphellapuccoon gen. n., sp. n. and two additional new species of aquatic oligochaetes (Lumbriculidae, Clitellata) from poorly-known lotic habitats in North Carolina (USA), ZooKeys 451, pp. 1-32 : 4

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.451.7304

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8C336E90-DDC6-473D-BD92-FA56B7FF620C

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/06570C13-DB67-418B-B1CC-EC2815B80DFF

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:06570C13-DB67-418B-B1CC-EC2815B80DFF

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scientific name

Sylphella
status

gen. n.

Taxon classification Animalia Lumbriculida Lumbriculidae

Sylphella View in CoL gen. n.

Diagnosis of the genus Sylphella gen. n.

Simple-pointed chaetae. Two pairs of testes and one pair of ovaries. Ovaries in first segment behind testes. Male pores paired in X and XI, female pores paired in the intersegment 12/13. Male ducts prosoporous. Atrial duct forms a penis within a penial sac, distally covered by a cuticular sheath. Two pairs of spermathecae, beginning in the ovarian segment.

Type species.

Sylphella puccoon sp. n.