Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835

Dudas, Rafaela Tavares, James, Samuel Wooster, Bartz, Marie L. C. & Brown, George Gardner, 2025, New earthworm species of Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 and Fimoscolex Michaelsen, 1900 (Clitellata: Glossoscolecidae) from southeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5589 (1), pp. 321-345 : 323

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.26

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14897236

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scientific name

Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835
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Genus Glossoscolex Leuckart, 1835 View in CoL (in Froriep, 1835)

Type species: Glossoscolex giganteus Leuckart, 1835 View in CoL .

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.