Volume 144, Number 2, 125-130, DOI: 10.1007/BF00014526

Aquatic Oligochaeta in some tributaries of the Río de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Celia Gluzman de Pascar

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Abstract

The Oligochaeta of some streams flowing into the Rio de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, were investigated. Twenty nine taxa (twenty four naidids, five tubificids) were identified. Most species are cosmopolitan, but Dero evelinae, Pristina leidyi, Slavina isochaeta and Bothrioneurum sp. are neotropical. Bratislavia unidentata, Haemonais waldvogeli and Nais pardalis are reported for the first time in Argentina. Variants occurr in the shape of the distal end of the penial sheaths of Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri. The dominant Naidid genera are Dero and Pristina. In the polluted El Gato stream only L. hoffmeisteri and L. claparedeianus were found.

Keywords  aquatic Oligochaeta - neotropical species - Río de La Plata tributaries - pollution - atypical penis-sheaths - Argentina

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