Reports of Drawida (Oligochaeta: Moniligastridae) from far East Asia Author Blakemore, Robert J. Author Lee, Seunghan Author Seo, Hong-Yul text Journal of Species Research 2014 2014-08-29 3 2 127 166 http://dx.doi.org/10.12651/jsr.2014.3.2.127 journal article 10.12651/JSR.2014.3.2.127 2713-8615 13143732 15. Drawida koreana shindo Blakemore sp. nov. Material. Holotype (H) IV0000246437 (DNA sample WO27 ) mature specimen, dissected, from mud beside creek on north side of Sido Bridge , Shindo (sometimes ‘Sindo’) Island , Incheon (GPS 37.530490 , 126.440730 ), collected 4 th May , 2012 by RJB and provisionally identified as “ Drawida cf japonica Shindo sp. 1 ”. Found with D. companio sp. nov. Etymology. Named after type locality (noun in apposition). Description. Light or pale brown colour. Length 80 mm with 140 segments. Prolobous. Clitellum tumid 1 / 29 -13. Dorsal pores absent. Nephropores near c-lines. Spermathecal pores small in 7/8 near c-lines. Male pores on small porophores at 10 posteriorly in mid-bc-lines. Female pores in b-lines on 12 near 11/12. Genital marking as unilateral disc presetally in bc on 8lhs and 9rhs and smaller, postsetal in 8rhs in bc. Septa 5/6-8/9 thick, 10/11 attaches to 11/12 ventrally. Spermathecae have large atria on moderately long ducts from small ampullae attached below septum 7/8, no glands are associated in 7 or 8. Male pores on short vasa deferentia with large glandular prostates. Ovaries are in 11. Ovisacs in 11-17. Gizzards in 12-14, i.e., three of. Intestine in 15-17 distended and rugose, thin in 18-19, then dilated from 20 onwards. Nephridia elongate but avesiculate only the ducts thickened. Hearts in 6-9. Dorsal blood vessel single. Remarks. This taxon belongs to the group with male pores in 10 but complies more with Drawida japonica sub-spp than with D. koreana sub-spp as it lacks the characteristic blue colouration, has GMs, a stubby penis and coiled spermathecal duct. The DNA data (Appendix, Fig. 1 ) show it to be closest to D. koreana nanjiro , as already noted, or an unidentified Japanese taxon (Genbank AB5 92437). Since both D. japonica and D. koreana occur in Japan , this latter comparison is inconclusive. Nevertheless, its distinction from other taxa in the current study, including its sympatric sample WO28 from Drawida companio sp. nov. , merits its description and naming as a sub-species new to science for similar reasons to D. koreana nanjiro .