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Issue: Vol. 2141 No. 1: 25 Jun. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-06-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2141.1.4
Page range: 56–68
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

New and little known earthworm species from the Mt. Nimba, Guinea (Oligochaeta, Acanthodrilidae: Benhamiinae)

Sysematic Zoology Research Group of HAS & Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1431 Budapest, Pf. 137, Hungary
Ecologie et Gestion Durable des Sols, UFR des Sciences de la Nature / Centre de Recherch en Ecologie, Université d'Abobo-Adjamé 02 BP 801 Abidjan 02, Côte d'Ivoire
Ecologie et Gestion Durable des Sols, UFR des Sciences de la Nature / Centre de Recherch en Ecologie, Université d'Abobo-Adjamé 02 BP 801 Abidjan 02, Côte d'Ivoire
Annelida Earthworms Mt. Nimba Guinea Dichogaster Guineoscolex

Abstract

A recent survey in the main habitat types of Mt. Nimba, Guinea (upland prairie, Serengbara forest and piedmont savannah) resulted in recording of 13 earthworm species of which 9 are first reported after the original description and three, Dichogaster (Dichogaster) cornuta sp. n., Guineoscolex geminatus sp. n. and Guineoscolex ungulatus sp. n., proved to be new to science. On the basis of the new material collected Benhamia inaequalis f. nimbai Omodeo is redescribed and resurrected from synonymy of Guineoscolex inaequalis (Michaelsen) as an independent species Guineoscolex nimbai (Omodeo). With 17 original figures.

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