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Issue: Vol. 4496 No. 1: 5 Oct. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-10-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.37
Page range: 481–491
Abstract views: 74
PDF downloaded: 2

Additions to Andiorrhinus (Turedrilus) (Rhinodrilidae, Clitellata) from Eastern Amazonia

Postgraduate Program in Agroecology, Maranhão State University (UEMA), Avenida Lourenço Vieira da Silva 1000, Campus Universitário Paulo VI, Jardim São Cristovão, 65.055-310 São Luís, MA, Brazil
Universidade Positivo, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
Postgraduate Program in Agroecology, Maranhão State University (UEMA), Avenida Lourenço Vieira da Silva 1000, Campus Universitário Paulo VI, Jardim São Cristovão, 65.055-310 São Luís, MA, Brazil
Postgraduate Program in Agroecology, Maranhão State University (UEMA), Avenida Lourenço Vieira da Silva 1000, Campus Universitário Paulo VI, Jardim São Cristovão, 65.055-310 São Luís, MA, Brazil
Postgraduate Program in Agroecology, Maranhão State University (UEMA), Avenida Lourenço Vieira da Silva 1000, Campus Universitário Paulo VI, Jardim São Cristovão, 65.055-310 São Luís, MA, Brazil
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield IA, United States
Annelida Earthworm Brazil Maranhão Gurupi

Abstract

Two new species of the earthworm family Rhinodrilidae (Clitellata), from Maranhão state, Brazil, were studied by dissection. Andiorrhinus (Turedrilus) miricuri n. sp. is the first record of a big earthworm for this region with three pairs of large spermathecae in segments 7–9 and one pair of tubercula pubertatis bands lateral to b line in XX–XXV. Andiorrhinus (Turedrilus) barrosoi n. sp. lacks spermathecae and has one pair of tubercula pubertatis bands lateral to b line in XX–(1/3) XXIV. The earthworms described are from the most threatened region of Amazonia where 75% of forest cover is already lost. More information is urgently necessary to assess their ecology and vulnerability status.

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