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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Alphadrilus

Alphadrilus Brinkhurst, 1988 (ref. ID; 6421 original paper)

ref. ID; 6421

This taxon is close to the hypothetical ancestor, deviating from that as conceived here by the loss of at least one pair of spermathecae (which occur on VII and VIII and sometimes in VI). It is created on the basis of convention 8 of Wiley (1981). (ref. ID; 6421)

Etymology

A potentially ancestoral form. (ref. ID; 6421)

Type species

Type species by monotypy Phreoryctes smithii Beddard, 1988 (ref. ID; 6421)
  1. Alphadrilus smithii (ref. ID; 6563)