Scherotheca Bouche 1972

Main Authors: Marchán, Daniel F., Decaëns, Thibaud, Díaz Cosín, Darío J., Hedde, Mickaël, Lapied, Emmanuel, Domínguez, Jorge
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal
Terbitan: , 2020
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4328346
Daftar Isi:
  • Genus Scherotheca Bouché, 1972 Type species Scherotheca gigas Dùges, 1828. Diagnosis Lumbricinae of large to very large size, post-clitellar trapezoidal section. Pigmentation brown to dark brown. Prostomium epilobous, closed. Longitudinal furrows in the peristomium. Nephridial pores “en solfège” (irregularly distributed). Spermathecal pores at least in two intersegments, between 9/10 and 13/14, or 13/14 and 15/16, sometimes multiple. Anterior septa strongly thickened. Male pores in 1⁄2 15, usually with porophores. Gizzard in 17–20 (21, 22). Typhlosole pinnate. Two or four pairs of seminal vesicles in (9, 10) 11, 12.
  • Published as part of Marchán, Daniel F., Decaëns, Thibaud, Díaz Cosín, Darío J., Hedde, Mickaël, Lapied, Emmanuel & Domínguez, Jorge, 2020, French Mediterranean islands as a refuge of relic earthworm species: Cataladrilus porquerollensis sp. nov. and Scherotheca portcrosana sp. nov. (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae), pp. 1-22 in European Journal of Taxonomy 701 on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.701, http://zenodo.org/record/3988368