<documentid="3302F9DC8B39739FBC6B53205803D5EB"ID-DOI="10.12651/JSR.2013.2.1.015"ID-ISSN="2713-8615"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13136911"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1722360455222"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Blakemore, Robert J."docDate="2013"docId="03BA87B0F653D60BAA7EFD9FFF40B2EC"docLanguage="en"docName="JSpeciesRes.2.1.15-54.pdf"docOrigin="Journal of Species Research 2 (1)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.12651/jsr.2013.2.1.015"docStyle="DocumentStyle:4D398BFF45FF8CA9E08F546BB06AE372.2:JSpeciesRes.2012-.journal_article"docStyleId="4D398BFF45FF8CA9E08F546BB06AE372"docStyleName="JSpeciesRes.2012-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="2"docTitle="Amynthas gracilis subsp. gracilis"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="27"masterDocId="FF83FFC8F658D606A946F91BFF97B017"masterDocTitle="Jeju-do earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megadrilacea) - Quelpart Island revisited"masterLastPageNumber="54"masterPageNumber="15"pageNumber="26"updateTime="1722361037191"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
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specimen in summary). Genital marking discs median to male pores, postsetally with small stalked glands corresponding internally. Spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8, first dorsal pore in 11/12. Septa 7/8 present to base of gizzard, 8/9 absent. Spermathecae in 6-8, with saccular ampulla on muscular duct with thin diverticula stalk having small, spherical bulb. Holandric. Prostates glands well developed in 18. Intestinal caeca incis- ed ventrally. Typhlosole absent.
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), another cosmopolitan species from tropical and warm temperate localities.
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noted that
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The current specimen complies with earlier descriptions although it lacks the GMs frequently seen in some or all of 6-8,9 near the spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8 and in groups of up to eleven (or twelve) median to male pores and sometimes on 17 and 19 too (
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). Without reference to DNA data, this would reasonably be the first record from
seem to indicate slight differences (Appendix). Morphology and DNA are recorded, leaving the outcome of the issue of correct identity and taxonomic relationship of either taxon flagged for future reference.
