Genus Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 (in Froriep, 1835)

Type species: Glossoscolex giganteus Leuckart, 1835 .

Diagnosis. Eight longitudinal lines of setae. One pair of intraclitellar or rarely pre-clitellar male pores, and in case of single male pores, always intraclitellar. One pair of copulatory bulbs connecting sperm ducts and the external male genital pore(s). Presence of paired calciferous glands of composite tubular type in segments XI or XII. Metandric and metagynic sexual system; frequently long seminal vesicles, spermathecae absent.