Marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from a mangrove habitat in Kenya
作者:
Christer Erséus,
期刊:
Tropical Zoology
(Taylor Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 1
页码: 137-143
ISSN:0394-6975
年代: 1999
DOI:10.1080/03946975.1999.10539383
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Oligochaeta;marine Tubificidae;taxonomy;Kenya;mangrove
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Two species of Tubificidae (both subfamily Rhyacodrilinae) are described from a hypersaline, high intertidal mangrove site at Gazi Bay in southern Kenya indicating that mangrove sediments of tropical East Africa contain marine Tubificidae, as do similar habitats studied on other continents. One species is identified asAinudrilus mediocrisErséus 1997, originally described from similar habitats in northern Australia. The genitalia of the Kenyan specimens differ in some dimensional features from those of the Australian material. The second taxon,Monopylephorus parvusDitlevsen 1904, is reported from many parts of the world, from tropical as well as temperate regions; it possibly should be regarded as a group of (very similar) species rather than a single species.
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