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Issue: Vol. 4189 No. 2: 10 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.7
Page range: 311–326
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New species of the earthworm genus Zapatadrilus (Clitellata, Acanthodrilidae) from northern Mexico

Laboratorio de Invertebrados del Suelo. Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática. Instituto de Ecología A. C. Carretera Antigua a Coatepec No. 351. Col. El Haya. Xalapa, Veracruz. C.P. 91070 MEXICO
Laboratorio de Invertebrados del Suelo. Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática. Instituto de Ecología A. C. Carretera Antigua a Coatepec No. 351. Col. El Haya. Xalapa, Veracruz. C.P. 91070 MEXICO
Laboratorio de Sistemática Filogenética. Red de Biología Evolutiva. Instituto de Ecología A. C. Carretera Antigua a Coatepec No. 351. Col. El Haya. Xalapa, Veracruz. C.P. 91070 MEXICO
Instituto de Ecología Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas. C.P. 87019 MEXICO
Instituto de Ecología Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas. C.P. 87019 MEXICO
Instituto de Ecología Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas. C.P. 87019 MEXICO
Laboratorio de Invertebrados del Suelo. Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática. Instituto de Ecología A. C. Carretera Antigua a Coatepec No. 351. Col. El Haya. Xalapa, Veracruz. C.P. 91070 MEXICO
Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
Annelida Benhamiinae Diplocardiinae DNAbarcodes Exxus Meronephridial Trigaster Octochaetidae Oligochaeta

Abstract

Three new species of the earthworm genus Zapatadrilus are described from Tamaulipas, Mexico: Zapatadrilus aurelius sp. nov., Zapatadrilus huastecus sp. nov., and Zapatadrilus montezumensis sp. nov. Delimitation of the new species was supported by morphological and molecular (genetic distances) evidence. Diagnostic characters of the three new species include: tubulo-racemose prostates in segments 18 and 20, penial setae absent, typhlosole present and intestine beginning in 17/18. Z. montezumensis sp. nov. is separated by its metandric condition, Z. aurelius sp. nov. by the last hearts in 13 and Z. huastecus sp. nov. by the shape of the spermathecae and patterns of genital markings.

 

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