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Martiodrilus (Martiodrilus) Righi 1995

  • 1. Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales, Complejo La Julita, A. A. 097, Pereira, Colombia. afeijoo @ utp. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5226 - 5233
  • 2. Université Paris Sorbonne, IEES-Biodis, Paris, France.

Description

Subgenus Martiodrilus (Martiodrilus) Righi, 1995, sensu Zicsi, 2000

Diagnosis. Different sizes, without pigments, dark blue, green or with stripes that vary between black and yellow. Setae in 8 longitudinal rows all over the body, rarely in an irregular arrangement at the end of the body. Intraclitellar male pores. Calciferous glands 8 pairs in segment 7-14, with composite tubular structure. Holandric and metagynous genitalia. 1, 2, or 3 pairs of spermathecae. Dissepiments thickened behind oesophagus. Holonephridia without rosette shaped nephrostoma (modified Zicsi, 2000).

Type species. Martiodrilus (Martiodrilus) heterostichon heterostichon (Schmarda, 1861)

Distribution. Number of species: 27, 3 subspecies. Ecuador (23), Colombia (4), Peru (1). In some cases, the species are distributed in several countries, for example Martiodrilus (Martiodrilus) heterostichon colpochaeta (Cognetti, 1906) (Ecuador, Colombia).

Notes

Published as part of Feijoo, Alexander & Lavelle, Patrick, 2023, New species and records of earthworms (Annelida, Oligochaeta: Crassiclitellata) in small holder farming systems in the Peruvian Amazon, pp. 157-170 in Zootaxa 5255 (1) on pages 163-164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.17, http://zenodo.org/record/7744620

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Glossoscolecidae
Genus
Martiodrilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Haplotaxida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Righi
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Martiodrilus (Martiodrilus) Righi, 1995 sec. Feijoo & Lavelle, 2023

References

  • Righi, G. (1995) Colombian earthworms. In: Van der Hammen, T. & Dos Santos, A. G. (Eds.), Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems / Estudios de Ecosistemas Tropandinos 4. Cramer, Berlin, pp. 485 - 607.
  • Zicsi, A. (2000) Revision der untergattung Martiodrilus (Martiodrilus, 1936) (Oligocahaeta: Glossoscolecidae) regenwurmer aus Sudamerika, 29. Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 32, 139 - 167.
  • Schmarda, L. K. (1861) Neue wirbellose Tiere, beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, 1853 - 1857. W. Engelmann, Leipzig, Bd, 1 (2), pp. 7 - 14.
  • Cognetti de Martiis L. (1906) Oligocheti della regione Neotropicale II. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 56 (2), 147 - 262.