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Notes on Species of North American Oligochaeta. V. The Systematic Relationships of Lumbriculus (Thinodrilus) inconstans

Smith, F.

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Title
Notes on Species of North American Oligochaeta. V. The Systematic Relationships of Lumbriculus (Thinodrilus) inconstans
Author(s)
Smith, F.
Issue Date
1905
Keyword(s)
  • Oligochaeta
  • genus Thinodrilus
  • species
Abstract
When this species was described by the writer (1895) it was thought that the differences between it and previously described species were such as to warrant the recognition of a new genus; hence the genus Thinodrilus. Michaelsen in his great work on the Oligochida (1900) saw fit to include this species in the genus Trichodrilus Claparede with the two European species. Recent papers on the reproductive organs of Lumhriciih (s variegafus (Miiller) by Wenig (1902) and Hesse (1902) have extended our knowledge of that species and have shown that it is in some particulars very similar to Thinodrilus inconsfans, and as it now seems to the writer that there is more reason for including the latter species in the genus Lnmhriculus than in the genus Trichodrilus, it will be referred to in the following discussion as Lumhriculus inconsfans.
Publisher
Champaign : Illinois Natural History Survey
Series/Report Name or Number
Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin; v. 007, no. 05
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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