A monograph of the Oligochaete family Alluroididae
Author
Jamieson, Barrie G. M.
School of the Environment, University of Queensland and 1 Maxwell Court, Coolum Beach, Queensland, Australia 4573.
Author
Fragoso, Carlos
Red de Bioversidad y Sistmatica, Instituto de Ecologia A. C, Xalapa, Mexico.
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-10-29
5529
3
401
435
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5529.3.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5529.3.1
1175-5326
14022623
C0662CC3-C5B1-4230-BF8D-EE6336A85242
Genus
Righiella
Omodeo & Coates, 2001
Type
species:
Righiella jamieson
i
Omodeo & Coates 2001
Alluroidinae
with large, coiled prostates having a thin muscular sheath surrounded by a thick glandular sleeve. The vas deferens enters the prostate, not ectally but at the ental tip. Metandric, male pores lateral in XIII, in the place of the absent ventral setae. A large unpaired spermatheca formed by duct and ampulla situated in pregonadial segments, opening in the mid–dorsal line. Lateromuscular groove conspicuous.
Remarks
.
Righiella
differs from the African genera and
Brinkhurstia
in being metandric, from
Kathrynella
by the position of the male and spermathecal pores, and from both American genera in the absence of penial setae (
Table 1
).