Description of a new earthworm species of the genus Drawida (Oligochaeta: Moniligastridae) from Northeast China and Far East Russia

Yufeng Zhang; Dmitry Atopkin; Linfei Wang; Donghui Wu

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity (Sep 2021)

Description of a new earthworm species of the genus Drawida (Oligochaeta: Moniligastridae) from Northeast China and Far East Russia

Yufeng Zhang,
Dmitry Atopkin,
Linfei Wang,
Donghui Wu

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Yufeng Zhang: Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130117, China; Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, Langfang Normal University, Langfang, 065000, China
Dmitry Atopkin: Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, 690051, Russia; Federal Scientific Centre of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
Linfei Wang: Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, Langfang Normal University, Langfang, 065000, China
Donghui Wu: Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130117, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetaion Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China; Key laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Envionment, Institute of Northeast Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China; Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 431 85542264; Fax: +86 431 85542298.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 3
pp. 425 – 429

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A new species of Drawida Michaelsen 1900, named Drawida ganini Zhang and Wu sp nov., is described from the material collected in the Muling River of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, and the adjacent region near Russia. The new species is morphologically similar to Drawida ghilarovi Gates 1969. The molecular data were more useful for comparison of D. ghilarovi samples. D. ganini is genetically different from D. ghilarovi by a p-distance value of 18.35 ± 1.37% based on the COI gene sequence data. Thus, Ganin and Atopkin's (2018) data validate taxonomical status of D. ganini as separated species.

Published in Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity

ISSN: 2287-884X (Print); 2287-9544 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General): Ecology
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-asia-pacific-biodiversity/

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