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<mods:namePart>Hernández-García, Luis Manuel</mods:namePart>
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Genus 
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Schmarda, 1861
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species.
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Setae, 8 per segment, the arrangement may be regular, more or less irregular, or quincunx. Pigmentation is generally absent. Male pores in the clitellar region. Intra-clitellar tubercula pubertatis are exceptionally absent (e.g. 
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Nulloscolex 
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). Gizzard in VI. Three pairs of calciferous glands tubular-dichotomous (panicled) structure, rarely simple tubular (
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Nulloscolex 
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) in VII–IX. Lateral blood vessels in VII–IX and lateroesophageal hearts in X and XI. Holonephridial system. Metandric and metagynous; seminal vesicles usually long and band-like, pierce some septa. Spermathecae simple (after Righi 1984).
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