Diporodrilus minor Marchán and Novo, 2024

Marchán, Daniel F., Navarro, Alejandro Martínez, Gérard, Sylvain, Decaëns, Thibaud & Novo, Marta, 2024, Ancient diversity within Diporodrilus (Crassiclitellata, Annelida) clarify the historical biogeography of Corso-Sardinian earthworms, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 24 (2), pp. 163-179 : 173-174

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13127-024-00639-w
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D4724B3C-3659-FF93-FC96-93DEFDF23387
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Diporodrilus minor Marchán and Novo
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Diporodrilus minor Marchán and Novo View in CoL sp. nov.

LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:6834D1A5-DAB9-432C-8356-1502D6C3C517 .

Type material — Holotype. Italy • 1 adult specimen; Sardinia, Sassari, Porto Rotondo ; latitude/longitude: 41.027324 / 9.529347; elevation: 12 m asl; 31-Jan-2010; M. Novo, R. Fernández leg. (1 specimens); BOLD Sample ID: DIP10; deposited at MNHN. GoogleMaps

Paratypes. Italy • 4 adult specimens , 2 juveniles; Sardinia, Sassari, Porto Rotondo ; latitude/longitude: 41.027324 / 9.529347; elevation: 12 m asl; 31-Jan-2010; M. Novo, R. Fernández leg. (6 specimens); BOLD Sample ID: DIP9, DIP24, DIP25, DIP26, DIP27, DIP28; deposited at UCM-LT GoogleMaps .

Etymology. — The species name refers to the lower weight of this earthworm compared to other similar species of the genus.

Diagnosis. — Diporodrilus minor can be distinguished from Diporodrilus omodeoi and Diporodrilus bouchei by the position of the clitellum in segments XXIII-XXXI(XXXII), from Diporodrilus rotundus sp. nov, Diporodrilus minor sp. nov., Diporodrilus meridionalis sp. nov. and Diporodrilus jorgei sp. nov by the presence of a genital papillae in XXXV but not in XXXII or XXXIV, and from Diporodrilus telti sp. nov by the lower average weight (1.7 g vs. 2.7 g) ( Table 2).

COI uncorrected average pairwise distances and topology of multilocus molecular phylogenetic trees supports the status of Diporodrilus minor sp. nov. as independent from other morphologically related species.