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<mods:namePart>Decaëns, Thibaud</mods:namePart>
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Sample ID: DFM-0057;
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ETYMOLOGY. — The species name is derived from the
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name of the
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locality (Bocca à Verghju, Col de Vergio). Name in apposition.
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DIAGNOSIS. —
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<emphasis box="[969,1220,449,473]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">Scherotheca boccaverghju</emphasis>
Marchán, Decäens &amp; Domínguez
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can be distinguished from all the other species of
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by the combination of position of the clitellum in segments 27-36,
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in segments 31-34(½ 35) and multiple spermathecae in segments 12 and 13 (
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;
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). COI uncorrected average pairwise distances and topology of multilocus molecular phylogenetic trees support the status of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">Scherotheca boccaverghju</emphasis>
Marchán, Decäens &amp; Domínguez
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,
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as independent from other morphologically similar species.
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DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY. —
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<emphasis box="[1114,1257,725,749]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">Sc. boccaverghju</emphasis>
Marchán, Decäens &amp; Domínguez
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,
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was found in Col de Vergio, Albertacce (
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), in an alpine grassland at a relatively high elevation (
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<emphasis box="[813,1027,885,911]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">External morphology</emphasis>
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Body pigmentation faint brown. White-beige with dorsal brownish mid-segment brown bands in fixed specimens (
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). Average length,
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); body cylindrical in cross-section; average number of segments, 189 (187-191,
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; 187 segments in the
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(
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). Prostomium epilobous, closed. Longitudinal furrows in segments 1 and 2. First dorsal pore in unknown intersegmental furrow. Nephridial pores “en solfège” (irregularly distributed). Spermathecal pores in intersegmental furrows 12/13 and 13/
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setal line
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, multiple. Male pores in segment 15, surrounded by a well-developed porophore. Female pores in segment 14. Clitellum saddle-shaped in segments 27-36.
<emphasis box="[1001,1216,1331,1357]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">Tubercula pubertatis</emphasis>
in segments 31-34(½ 35). Chaetae small and closely paired. Genital papillae in segments 28,30,35,36.
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<emphasis box="[813,992,1459,1485]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">Internal anatomy</emphasis>
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5/6-10/11 thickened and muscular. Hearts in segments 6-11, oesophageal. Calciferous glands in segments 10-14, with diverticula in segment 10. Crop in segments 15-16, gizzard in segments 17-19. Typhlosole pinnate.Male sexual system holandric, testes and funnels (not enclosed in testes sacs, but with sperm present) located ventrally in segments 10 and 11. Four pairs of reniform seminal vesicles in segments 9, 10, 11 and 12, with the latter two pairs being significantly larger. Ovaries and female funnels in segment 13, ovarian receptacles (ovisacs) in segment 14. Multiple small globular spermathecae in segments 12 and 13 (intersegments 12/13, 13/14). Nephridial bladders U-shaped, reclinate in segment 30.
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<paragraph blockId="11.[813,1455,1938,2028]" box="[813,903,1938,1964]" pageId="11" pageNumber="116">REMARK</paragraph>
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This species corresponds to
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the checklist of Corsican earthworms of
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Marchán
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(2022a)
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