Zapotecia Eisen, 1900

Álvarez-Abreu, Oniel & Carrera-Martínez, Roberto, 2025, Annotated checklist of the earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) from Hispaniola: a brief review and remarks, Zootaxa 5589 (1), pp. 346-362 : 349

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.27

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14897136

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scientific name

Zapotecia Eisen, 1900
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Genus Zapotecia Eisen, 1900 View in CoL

Remarks. Zapotecia is characterized by having three gizzards, and therefore presumed to share ancestry with the trigastrid group of genera. However, it is worth noting that Zapotecia differs from the trigastrids (in a strict application of the clade definition) by having holonephridia. This suggests that Zapotecia might share a closer ancestry with Protozapotecia and Diplocardia , and not to the trigastrids. Regardless if Zapotecia shares a closer common ancestor with the trigastrids or Protozapotecia and Diplocardia , all of these genera are considered to be more closely related to each other than to other achantodrilid species (Fragoso & Rojas 2016; James & Davidson 2012). The specific evolutionary history of these genera remains unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

SubClass

Oligochaeta

Order

Crassiclitellata

Family

Acanthodrilidae

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