Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835

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, Zootaxa 3458, pp. 59-85 : 60-61

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.282225
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6176985
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scientific name	Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835
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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)

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Annelida
Class	Clitellata
Order	Haplotaxida
Family	Glossoscolecidae

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