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Marine species of Ainudrilus and Heterodrilus (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae: Rhyacodrilinae) from Hainan Island in southern China

Hongzhu Wang

State Key Laboratory of Freshwater
 Ecology and Biotechnology
Institute of Hydrobiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan 430072, China
email: wanghz@ihb.ac.cn

Christer Erséus

Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Box 50007, SE-104 05
Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract   Six species of Rhyacodrilinae (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) are reported from intertidal and shallow water subtidal habitats around Hainan Island in southern China. Four species are new to science: Ainudrilus pauciseta n. sp., Heterodrilus chenianus n. sp., Heterodrilus nudus n. sp., and Heterodrilus uniformis n. sp. Japanese material of Ainudrilus lutulentus (Erséus, 1984) is also briefly described. Hitherto, 27 species belonging to Tubificidae have been recorded from Hainan.

Keywords  Ainudrilus; Heterodrilus; Tubificidae; marine oligochaetes; taxonomy; new species; faunal diversity; southern China; Japan

M02025 Received 8 April 2002; accepted 20 September 2002; Published 20 March 2003
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2003, Vol. 37: 205-217
0028-8330/03/3701-0205 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2003

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