Pontodrilus Perrier 1874

Genus Pontodrilus Perrier 1874

Genus Pontodrilus is characterised by tubular prostates connected with male pores on segment 18. Excretory system holoic (although nephridia may be absent from a few anterior segments) and setae lumbricine. After a few attempts at generic and species revision (Easton 1983; Blakemore 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008 a, 2010), the taxonomic status of the genus is still under discussion. Plisko (2010) recorded it under megascolecids, although here the genus and its species Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube, 1855) are provisionally placed in the appendix to megascolecids.

Published as part of Plisko, Jadwiga D. & Nxele, Thembeka C., 2015, An annotated key separating foreign earthworm species from the indigenous South African taxa (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Microchaetidae, Ocnerodrilidae and Tritogeniidae), pp. 663 in African Invertebrates 56 (3) on page 700, DOI: 10.5733/afin.056.0312, http://zenodo.org/record/79…