A new species of Pontoscolex earthworm (Rhinodrilidae, Clitellata) from the Gurupi Biological Reserve, along with records of earthworm species from the Amazon region of Maranhão, Brazil
Author
Sousa, Sandriel Costa
Author
Hernández-García, Luis Manuel
hglm 72 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1478 - 4953
Author
Rousseau, Guillaume Xavier
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-06-17
4801
1
105
114
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4801.1.4
1175-5326
3898134
089ADBCF-0FCA-4E23-9ABD-CAD6D83B143B
Genus
Pontoscolex
Schmarda, 1861
Type
species.
Lumbricus
corethrurus
Müller, 1857
Diagnosis.
Setae, 8 per segment, arranged in regular rows at least in the anterior region; in the posterior one the arrangement may be regular, more or less irregular, or in quincunx. Pigment generally absent. Male pores and tubercula pubertatis in the clitellar region. Gizzard in VI. Three pairs of calciferous glands of tubular-dichotomous (panicled) structure in VII–IX. Dorsal, ventral, supra- and subesophageal and subneural vessels present. Lateral blood vessel in VII–IX and latero-esophageal hearts in X and XI. Holonephridia with terminal sphincter. Metandric and metagynous; seminal vesicles usually long and band-like, pierce a number of septa. Spermathecae simple (
Righi 1984
).