Chilota Michaelsen, 1899 emend. Pickford, 1937

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2007, New species of South African acanthodriline earthworms of the genera Eodriloides and Chilota, with a redescription of Chilota quindecimus (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae), African Invertebrates 48 (2), pp. 33-40 : 35-36

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scientific name	Chilota Michaelsen, 1899 emend. Pickford, 1937
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Genus Chilota Michaelsen, 1899 emend. Pickford, 1937 View in CoL

Chilota: Michaelsen 1899: 237 View in CoL ; Pickford 1937: 437.

Diagnosis: Male reproductive organs acanthodriline. Proandric. Excretory system vesiculate. Prostatic pores and male pores ventrolaterally, not approximating towards the middle-ventral line. Male pores paired, in 18. Two pairs of spermathecae; spermatheca with one or more, variable shaped diverticulum. Commencement of intestine variable:

in 15, or 16, or 17. Gizzard in 5 or 6, developed variably: well-developed, moderate, or rudimentary. Last pair of lateral hearts in 12 or 13.

References

MICHAELSEN, W. 1899. Oligochaeten von den Inseln des Pacific, nebst Erorterungen zur Systematik der Megascoleciden. Terricolen (Nachtrag). In Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik 12: 211 - 247.

PICKFORD, G. E. 1937. A monograph of the Acanthodriline earthworms of South Africa. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.