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Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey. (2012). Checklist of Questidae (Clitellata) and Aeolosomatidae (Oligochaeta) from South America. Turkish Journal of Zoology. 36(1): 133-138.
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Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey
2012
Checklist of Questidae (Clitellata) and Aeolosomatidae (Oligochaeta) from South America
Turkish Journal of Zoology
36(1): 133-138
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The faunistic assemblage of basal clitellates in South America presently has 2 marine species (Questa media Westheide, 1981 and Aeolosoma maritimum dubiosum Westheide & Schmidt, 1974), and 15 species of freshwater aeolosomatids: A. aureum Marcus, 1944; A. beddardi Michaelsen, 1900; A. corderoi Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944; A. evelinae Marcus, 1944; A. fl avum Štolc, 1903; A. gertae Marcus, 1944; A. headleyi Beddard, 1888; A. hemprichi Ehrenberg, 1831; A. hyalinum Bunke, 1967; A. marcusi Van der Land, 1971; A. sawayai Marcus, 1944; A. travancorense Aiyer, 1926; A. variegatum Vejdovský, 1884; and A. viride Stephenson, 1911, and Hystricosoma pictum Schmarda, 1861, species inquirenda. Eight of these are known only from South America.
America, South
Freshwater
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Hystricosoma pictum (Schmarda, 1861) (basis of record)
New combination
possibly the recombination from Aeolosoma was made by Cognetti (1904), as Christoffersen cites that work. ... [details]