New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
Two new species of the marine genus Limnodriloides and a record of Tubificoides /iraser/Brinkhurst (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) from New Zealand
CHRIST ERERSEUS
Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, Sweden
Postal address: Department of Zoology, University of Goteborg, P.O. Box 25 059, S-400 31 GOteborg, Sweden
Abstract Limnodriloides thrushi n. sp., from subtidal muddy sands in Otago Harbour, South Island, New Zealand, and
L. insolitus n. sp., from a mudflat in Tauranga Harbour, North Island, New Zealand, are described. The first species has both (grooved) spermathecal and (bifid) penial setae, and bears its maleporesonapair of bulbous protuberances in segment XI. The latter has a pair of styliforrn penes, of a kind unique for the genus. The estuarine, parthenogenetic (or self-fertilising?), species
Tubificoides fraseri Brinkhurst, 1986, previously known from North America and Australia, is also reported from Manukau Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords Oligochaeta; Tubificidae; Limnodriloides thrushi; L. insolitus; new species; Tubificoides fraseri; taxonomy; New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1989, Vol. 23: 557-561 0028-8330/2304-0557$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1989 Received 4 July 1989; accepted 12 September 1989
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