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Taxonomic Studies of the Marine Genus Marcusaedrilus Righi & Kanner (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae), with Descriptions of Seven New Species from the Caribbean Area and Australia *
Author(s) -
ERSÉUS CHRISTER
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1983.tb00546.x
Subject(s) - biology , oligochaeta (plant) , spermatheca , great barrier reef , taxonomy (biology) , ecology , genus , reef , botany , sperm
The definition of Marcusaedrilus Righi & Kanner, 1979, is modified to include M. hummelincki Righi & Kanner, 1979, M. luteolus sp.n. (both from the Caribbean), and six new species from the Great Barrier Reef, M. grandiculus sp.n., M. minusculus sp.n., M. tuber sp.n., M. capricornae sp.n., M. sacculatus sp.n., and M. irregularis sp.n. The genus is largely distinguished from the closely related Limnodriloides Pierantoni, 1903, by its partially ciliated atria and its tripartite spermathecae.