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Delaya

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

Family Haplotaxidae (ref. ID; 6033, 6421)

ref. ID; 6421

This taxon shares the apomorphy of dissimilar male and female gonoducts with all taxa above Alphadrilus, but the female ducts retain the supposedly plesiosmorphic plesioporus condition. There are usually three, sometimes four, pairs of spermathecae. There is, as yet, no autapomorphy. (ref. ID; 6421)

Etymology

Named for B. Delay, who described most of the species. (ref. ID; 6421)

Type species

Type species by priority Pelodrilus bureschi Michaelsen, 1925 (ref. ID; 6421)
  1. Delaya cantabronensis (ref. ID; 6033, 6421)
  2. Delaya corbarensis (ref. ID; 6033, 6421)
  3. Delaya leruthi (ref. ID; 6421)
  4. Delaya navarrensis (ref. ID; 6033, 6421)