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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA7EFD9FFBC0B48B" bold="true" box="[824,1111,1156,1180]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Amynthas gracilis gracilis</emphasis>
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[
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA7EFDFEFB8CB4EA" bold="true" box="[824,1051,1253,1277]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Material examined.</emphasis>
IV000251208 from Cheonji-yeon Falls, 13
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June, 2012. Mature specimen sketched and dissected providing DNA sample (w63).
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA7EFC5EFC56B54A" bold="true" box="[824,961,1349,1373]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Description.</emphasis>
(
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specimen in summary). Genital marking discs median to male pores, postsetally with small stalked glands corresponding internally. Spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8, first dorsal pore in 11/12. Septa 7/8 present to base of gizzard, 8/9 absent. Spermathecae in 6-8, with saccular ampulla on muscular duct with thin diverticula stalk having small, spherical bulb. Holandric. Prostates glands well developed in 18. Intestinal caeca incis- ed ventrally. Typhlosole absent.
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA7EFF7CFC30B668" bold="true" box="[824,935,1639,1663]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Remarks.</emphasis>
The current specimen complies morphologically with current concepts of “
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” (e.g., by
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;
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;
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), another cosmopolitan species from tropical and warm temperate localities.
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noted that
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DADB2FFFCFCF3B708" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Amynthas bouchei</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA35FE13FC79B708" box="[883,1006,1799,1823]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">A. omodeoi</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C134D25F653D60DAD63FE13FB31B708" authorityName="Zhao &amp; Qiu" authorityYear="2009" box="[1061,1190,1799,1823]" class="Clitellata" family="Megascolecidae" genus="Amynthas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Crassiclitellata" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="edwardsi">
<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAD63FE13FB31B708" box="[1061,1190,1799,1823]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">A. edwardsi</emphasis>
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all by Zhao &amp; Qiu in Zhao
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2009 from
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,
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in the same
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAC37FE33FC01B777" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">hawayanus</emphasis>
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species-group”, are possible syns. nov. of
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAC3BFE53FC1EB797" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">A. gracilis</emphasis>
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.
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, 214) remarked that
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA7EFE93FC1BB7B7" box="[824,908,1928,1952]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">gracilis</emphasis>
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was the type-species of the monotypic genus
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F653D60DAA7EFEB2FC1CB7D7" box="[824,907,1961,1984]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Nitocris</emphasis>
Kinberg, 1867
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, a pre-occupied name, and made it representative of their
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F654D60AA8DCFE51FD86B775" box="[410,529,1866,1890]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="27">hawayanus</emphasis>
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species-group” while noting that the precise identity of the type-series could not be established as the specimens are immature.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B967EAB4F654D60AA9DBFFC3FF4DB6FA" bold="true" box="[157,218,1752,1773]" pageId="12" pageNumber="27">Fig. 7.</emphasis>
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sub-sp. nov. holotype showing ventral aspect; prostomium, spermathecae (those on lhs from P1), gland in 18 and caeca
<emphasis id="B967EAB4F654D60AA869FFE8FEF0B710" box="[303,359,1779,1799]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="27">in situ</emphasis>
with [boxed] enlargement of spermathecae from H and P1 and of male area 18rhs].
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Kinbergs original description, in full, was: “
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n. Lobus cephalicus longitudinem partis mediae superioris segmenti buccalis aequans; segmenta 89-91; longitudo
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. Rio de Janeiro, in horto botanico
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.”
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The current specimen complies with earlier descriptions although it lacks the GMs frequently seen in some or all of 6-8,9 near the spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8 and in groups of up to eleven (or twelve) median to male pores and sometimes on 17 and 19 too (
<bibRefCitation id="EF824B57F655D60BAB45F879FD2BB16D" author="Gates, G. E." box="[515,700,354,378]" pageId="13" pageNumber="28" pagination="1 - 326" refId="ref16676" refString="Gates, G. E. 1972. Burmese Earthworms, an introduction to the systematics and biology of Megadrile oligochaetes with special reference to South-East Asia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 62 (7): 1 - 326." type="journal article" year="1972">Gates, 1972: 189</bibRefCitation>
;
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). Without reference to DNA data, this would reasonably be the first record from
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. However, a potential sub-species is tentatively described below that differs from the more familiar concept of the cosmopolitan
<taxonomicName id="4C134D25F655D60BA87FFB19FE3BB20D" baseAuthorityName="Kinberg" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[313,428,514,538]" class="Clitellata" family="Megascolecidae" genus="Amynthas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Crassiclitellata" pageId="13" pageNumber="28" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="gracilis">
<emphasis id="B967EAB4F655D60BA87FFB19FE3BB20D" box="[313,428,514,538]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="28">A. gracilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, yet its DNA - at least for the part of the COI gene - agrees 100% with the current specimen. At the same time, the only previously
<taxonomicName id="4C134D25F655D60BABCAFB58FD6AB24D" baseAuthorityName="Kinberg" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[652,765,578,602]" class="Clitellata" family="Megascolecidae" genus="Amynthas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Crassiclitellata" pageId="13" pageNumber="28" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="gracilis">
<emphasis id="B967EAB4F655D60BABCAFB58FD6AB24D" box="[652,765,578,602]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="28">A. gracilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
barcodes from
<collectingCountry id="F3047636F655D60BA804FB78FEE8B26D" box="[322,383,611,634]" name="Japan" pageId="13" pageNumber="28">Japan</collectingCountry>
seem to indicate slight differences (Appendix). Morphology and DNA are recorded, leaving the outcome of the issue of correct identity and taxonomic relationship of either taxon flagged for future reference.
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