West African Earthworm Genus Millsonia Beddard, 1894 (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Benhamiinae) Reviewed And Separation Of A New Genus
Author
Csuzdi, Cs.
text
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
2006
2006-04-10
52
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.12585973
2064-2474
12585973
Reginaldia
gen. n.
(
Fig. 1
)
Millsonia
:
OMODEO
1955: 218
(part.);
OMODEO
1958: 59
(part.);
SIMS
1986: 277
(part.);
CSUZDI
1995
a
: 116
(part.);
CSUZDI
1996: 360
(part.);
CSUZDI
2000
a
: 75
(part.).
Diagnosis. Male terminalia acanthodriline, sometimes with microscolecine reduction. One or two gizzards before the genital segments, three pairs of stalked extramural calciferous glands in segment
xv-xvii
, excretory system meroic with astomate meronephridia accompanied caudally by stomate enteronephric filiform megameronephridia (
Fig. 1
). Paired digitate caeca present in at least one, usually several adjacent segments of the intestine; typhlosole present, ventral setae not modified.
Type
species:
Millsonia ghanensis
SIMS
, 1965
.
Etymology. The new genus is named in honour of the recognized earthworm taxonomist
REGINALD
WILLIAMS
SIMS
.
Remarks. The new genus is closely related to
Millsonia
BEDDARD
, 1894
but differs from it in the enteronephric condition of the excretory system.