Limpluvidae, Martin & Fend & Martinsson & Klinth & Torii & Erséus, 2024

Martin, Patrick, Fend, Steven, Martinsson, Svante, Klinth, Mårten, Torii, Takaaki & Erséus, Christer, 2024, Towards an integrative revision of Haplotaxidae (Annelida: Clitellata), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (zlae 141) 202 (4), pp. 1-38 : 25

Limpluvidae fam. nov. (clade 5 in Fig. 1 )

ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E499FF2B-FFE1-4D5B-9F38-946EBB0B0821

Type genus: Limpluvia Fend & Torii gen. nov.

Diagnosis

As for type genus.

Remarks

The semiprosoporous male ducts (one pair prosoporous, one plesioporous) somewhat resemble the basic arrangement of the Lumbriculidae —typical members of which have a similar body form, including four pairs of chaetae per segment. However, morphology of the reproductive system appears closer to another monotypic family, Kurenkovidae Sokolskaja, 1983 —although the single species, Kurenkovia magna Sokolskaja, 1969 has subsequently been placed within in the Lumbriculidae , based on the (morphological) cladistic analysis of Brinkhurst (1989). The family Limpluvidae is currently monotypic, and morphologically distinguished by the characters listed below in the genus diagnosis and species description for Limpluvia setoensis .

Figures

Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of Clitellata estimated with Bayesian inference in MrBayes, using a concatenated set of markers, i.e. 12S, 16S, COI, 18S, and 28S. The tree is rooted such that Parvidrilidae and Randiellidae (also Clitellata) appear as lineages outside the rest of the ‘Clitellata’ tree, a position strongly supported by the metagenomic analyses of Erséus et al. (2020). Haplotaxid like taxa are shaded.Support values at branches are posterior probabilities, scale represents expected number of changes/site. Capital letters at the end of the species codes in Haplotaxis indicate countries of origin.BEN: Benin, FR: France, GR: Greece, IT: Italy, JP: Japan, SE: Sweden, US: USA. Inset, photo of live specimen of Haplotaxis spSE in its natural habitat, soil soaked in groundwater, photo: Johan Wingborg, and photo of live specimen of Haplotaxis spBEN6, photo: Patrick Martin.