Pristina longiseta Ehrenberg 1828
Creators: name: Righi, Gilberto
name: Hamoui, Viviane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Tubificida
Naididae
Pristina
Pristina longiseta

description: Pristina longiseta Ehrenberg, 1828    Pristina longiseta Ehrenberg, 1828: 112. Michaelsen, 1903: 186; Piguet, 1906: 290, pl. X, figs. 22-23, pl. XII, figs. 21-25; 1928: 91; Cordero, 1931a: 334; du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1947: 9; Sperber, 1958: 52, figs. 18-19; Howmiller, 1974: 7; Rodriguez, 1987: 39, figs. 2-3.   
 Pristina leidyi Smith, 1896: 396, pl. XXXV, figs. 1-6; Michaelsen, 1905a: 357; Di Persia, 1980a: 98; Harman & McMahan, 1975: 171, figs. 1-4; Harman, 1982a: 295; Pujals, 1985: 282; Marchese, 1986: 242; Dumnicka, 1986: 279; Harman et al. 1988: 2239.   
 Pristina longiseta f. typica, Michaelsen, 1913: 208; 1921: 2; Cordero, 1931b: 350; 1951: 237; Marcus, 1943: 107, figs. 80,84,92-97, 100; 1944: 50.   
 Pristina longiseta var. bidentata Cernosvitov, 1942: 198, figs. 1-15.   
 Pristina longiseta longiseta, Sperber, 1948: 236, pl. XXI, figs. 2, 6. Brinkhurst, 1971b: 402, figs. 7.21J, 7.25E-I; Botea, 1983: 26, fig. 7H-J.   
 Pristina longiseta sinensis Sperber, 1948: 237.   
 Pristina longiseta leidyi, Sperber, 1948: 237; Brinkhurst, 1971b: 403.   
 Pristina longiseta bidentata Sperber, 1948: 238; Brinkhurst, 1971b: 404, fig. 7.25J-M; Harman, 1974: 19.   
 Pristina longiseta f. leidyi, Cordero, 1951: 237.   
Material: Montserrat 839: 1 specimen. Venezuela, 920: 4 specimens.  
Surinam 406: 1 specimen. Habitat: Limnetic; salinity 0.03-0.11 %.  
 Distribution: Cosmopolite. Neotropical occurrences: Chile: Dept. Valdivia (Michaelsen, 1903). Argentina: Dept. Buenos Ayres, Entre Rios, Santa Fe, Cordoba, Corrientes, Chaco, Missiones, Santiago del Estero, San Juan, Tucuman (Michaelsen, 1921; Cernosvitov, 1942; Cordero, 1951; Di Persia, 1980a; Pujals, 1985; Marchese, 1986; Harman et al. 1988). Uruguay (Cordero, 1931a; b). Paraguay (Michaelsen, 1905a). Bolivia: Prov. La Paz, Santa Cruz (Martinez-Ansemil & Giani, 1986). Peru: Dept. Puno, Cusco, Madre de Dios, Junin, Piura, Loreto (Piguet, 1928; Harman et al. 1988). Brazil: Stat. São Paulo, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Amazonas (Marcus, 1943; 1944; du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1947). Surinam (Harman, 1974). Costa Rica; Honduras; El Salvador (Harman, 1982a). Guatemala (Howmiller, 1974). Cuba (Botea, 1983). Haiti (Dumnicka, 1986). Venezuela: Distrito Federal. Montserrat (Righi & Hamoui).   
 Remarks: Harman & McMaham (1975) studying animals of North America and Surinam, nullified the differences between the subspecies P. longiseta leidyi and P. l. bidentata uniting them under P. leidyi, which they consider to be different from P. longiseta. Rodriguez (1987) detected a mixture of characteristics of leidyi and longiseta in specimens from Spain and France, concluding that they are just forms of a same species. The interpretation of P. longiseta as a polytypical species (Rassenkreis) was previously made by Marcus (1943) and accepted by Sperber (1948) who, nothwithstanding, diagnosed 4 subspecies which she then ignored (Sperber, 1958). It is neccessary to mention that the Brazilian animals (Marcus, 1943) and ours have an “anterior dorsal organ” which was not seen in specimens from other regions.
description: Published as part of Righi, Gilberto & Hamoui, Viviane, 2002, Oligochaeta, Naididae Of The West Indies And Adjacent Regions, pp. 119-167 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 42 (6) on pages 150-151, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2002.42.p119-167, http://zenodo.org/record/13226308