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Michalakus Plisko 1996

Description

Michalakus Plisko, 1996

Michalakus Plisko, 1996 a: 289.

Type species: M. initus by original designation. Type depository: Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

One species, endemic to KwaZulu­Natal.

Collection sites are shown in Fig. 1.

Holandric, with two oesophageal gizzards in segment 7 and 9, and one pair of nephridia per segment.

Notes

Published as part of Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2003, Eleven new South African earthworms (Oligochaeta: Microchaetidae) with new information on some known species, and an inventory of the microchaetids of KwaZulu-Natal, pp. 279-325 in African Invertebrates 44 (2) on page 292, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7666260

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tritogeniidae
Genus
Michalakus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Crassiclitellata
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Plisko
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Michalakus Plisko, 1996 sec. Plisko, 2003