Microscolex Rosa, 1887 emend. Pickford, 1937

Plisko, Jadwiga D. & Nxele, Thembeka C., 2015, An annotated key separating foreign earthworm species from the indigenous South African taxa (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Microchaetidae, Ocnerodrilidae and Tritogeniidae), African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 663-663 : 683

Genus Microscolex Rosa, 1887 emend. Pickford, 1937

(based on species occurring in RSA)

Description: Length 10–102 mm. Unpigmented, darkish dorsally, pale ventrally. Setae lumbricine. Prostomium epilobous. Female pores paired, in 14. Microscolecine. Male pores paired in 17. Prostatic pores paired in 17 or 17 and 19. Clitellum annular. Spermathecae present, or absent. Gizzard various sizes: reduced or rudimentary. Dorsal blood vessel single. Holandric. Excretory system holoic with various bladder shapes. Calciferous glands absent. Typhlosole absent.

Notes: Two introduced species of this genus are recorded from RSA.