Marine Limnodriloidinae (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) from Italy, with description of two new species

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Abstract
Limnodriloides hrabetovae sp. n., characterized by small male ducts with atrial ducts longer than ampullae, spermathecal pores in line with ventral setae and lack of spermatozeugmata, is described from the Adriatic coasts of Italy and Yugoslavia. Limnodriloides maslinicen‐sis (Hrabë) is reported from Italy for the first time. An aberrant specimen of L. appendiculatus Pierantoni with oesophageal diverti‐cula in segment VIII is described, and new records of L. pierantonii (Hrabë) and Thalassodrilides gurwitschi (Hrabë) are given. The first species of Tectidrilus from the Mediterranean Sea, T. pranzoi sp. n., which lacks body wall papillae as well as oesophageal diverticula, is described from Sardinia.