Rhinodrilus, Silva & Santos & Nadolny & Bartz & James & Brown, 2023

Silva, Elodie Da, Santos, Alessandra, Nadolny, Herlon S., Bartz, Marie L. C., James, Samuel W. & Brown, George G., 2023, Earthworms from natural and managed ecosystems in Southern Bahia, Brazil, Zootaxa 5255 (1), pp. 270-282 : 275

Rhinodrilus sp. nov.

BRBA0009 (BRBADNA0330), 1 adult minhocuçu in aestivation ( Figure 1A ); at 60 cm depth in native forest at the Estaç „o Ecológica Pau Brasil, Porto Seguro, BA (S16.38596 W39.17433); 113 m a.s.l., 13-11-2014, M.L.C. Bartz and G.G. Brown, colls. BRBA0012 , 1 adult minhocuçu; found dead on the side of the road after being run over by a motorcycle ( Figure 1B ); the specimen had likely wandered onto the road in the early morning after a rain-shower, from the native forest on the roadside at the RPPN Estaç„o Veracel, Porto Seguro, BA (S16.387653 W39.170093); 90 m a.s.l., 14-11-2014, G.G. Brown, coll. BRBA0013 (BRBADNA0345), 1 juvenile; topsoil (0– 20cm) of native forest at the RPPN Estaç „o Veracel, Porto Seguro, BA (S16.38724 W39.16957); 90 m a.s.l., 14-11- 2014, M.L.C. Bartz and G.G. Brown , colls .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Adult Rhinodrilus sp. nov. in diapause at 60 cm depth in the sandy forest soil of the Pau Brasil Ecological Station (A) and individual (>1 m long) killed on the road next to the RPPN Estaç„o Veracel (B) in Ilhéus; Diplomoela browni in the hands of M.L.C. Bartz (C) which ventured into the open hole dug to collect the former species at the Pau Brasil Ecological Station forest. Both species are>60 cm long in-vivo, and the soil in which they were found has extensive evidence of their bioturbation, with many darker organic-matter rich castings deposited within earthworm burrows in the lighter-colored sandy soil matrix (D).