Enchytraeus demutatus, Schmelz & Klinth & Chalkia & Anastasiadou & Vavoulidou, 2019

Schmelz, Rüdiger M., Klinth, Mårten J., Chalkia, Christina, Anastasiadou, Pelagia & Vavoulidou, Evangelia, 2019, Enchytraeus demutatus sp. nov. (Enchytraeidae, Oligochaeta) has characters hitherto unrecorded in the genus, Soil Organisms 91 (3), pp. 87-96 : 90

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25674/SO91iSS3PP87

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192641

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scientific name

Enchytraeus demutatus
status

sp. nov.

Enchytraeus demutatus View in CoL sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype. ZMB 12202 View Materials , anterior body end, stained whole mount. Regional division of Ilia, Greece, 37°18’N – 38°06’N, 21°54’– 22°12’E. Organically enriched soil from tomato greenhouse plantation, soil sample taken by Chr. Chalkia. Specimen isolated from soil sample and fixed 13 Aug 2018 by R. M. Schmelz at the University of A Coruña. GoogleMaps

Paratypes. ZMB 12203 View Materials , same data as holotype GoogleMaps . ZMB 12204-12211 View Materials , stained whole mounts. Specimens reared in Agar Agar substrate, isolated and fixed Dec 2018. Four paratype specimens in the collection of the laboratory of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology of the Agricultural University of Athens in Greece, without accession numbers .

Further material. C. 20 specimens, adult, subadult, and juvenile, from cultures in soil or Agar Agar, investigated in vivo, not preserved.

DNA sequences. Holotype: Anterior part: ZMB 12202 View Materials . Posterior part, processed for DNA extraction: CE35377 (C. Erséus Collection, see Table 1, Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ).

Etymology. The Latin adjective demutatus means changed, altered, transformed (perfect passive participle of demutare). Named for the characters that differ from the patterns hitherto known in the genus.

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