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Species Diversity
Abstract
Kahayandrilus tundaiensis gen. et sp. nov. is described from an oxbow lake in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Although the taxonomic affinities are unknown, the genus differs from other genera in Tubificinae in having ovoid atria with long ejaculatory duct with uniform width, and large penes with soft and thick wall.
We would like to thank late Dede Irving Hartoto of Research Center for Limnology, Lembaga Ilum Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI), Indonesia, as well as Sulmin Gumiri, Ardianor, Yulintine Liwat, and other staff of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Palangka Raya, Indonesia, for their help in the field. Thanks are also to Toshio Iwakuma in Tokyo, Japan and Haruo Fukuhara in Kanazawa, Japan, for their encouragements during this study. We are grateful to Tarmo Timm of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia, for his constractive review of the manuscript. This study was partly supported by the Core University Program between Hokkaido University, Japan and Research Center of Biology, LIPI, sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences during 1997–2006.
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