Aulophorus furcatus
Creators: name: Righi, Gilberto
name: Hamoui, Viviane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Tubificida
Naididae
Aulophorus
Aulophorus furcatus

description: Aulophorus furcatus (O. F. Müller, 1773)    Nais furcata O. F. Müller, 1773: 23.   
 Dero furcata, Stieren, 1892: 122.   
 Dero furcatus, Coates & Stacey, 1994: 82.   
 Dero (Aulophorus) furcatus, Sperber, 1948: 191, fig. 20B-D; Di Persia, 1974: 37, figs. 1-5; Harman, 1974: 31; 1982a: 290; Martinez-Ansemil & Giani, 1986: 113.   
 Dero (Aulophorus) furcata, Dumnicka, 1986: 272.   
 Aulophorus furcatus, Michaelsen, 1933: 338; Cordero, 1931a: 334; 1931b: 350; 1951: 231; Cernosvitov, 1937: 145; 1942: 201; Marcus, 1943: 87, figs. 61, 66-71; 1944: 50; du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1947: 6; 1949: 2.   
 Aulophorus africanus Michaelsen, 1914: 152, pl. IV, figs. 1-3; Hrabe, 1966: 382, figs. 33-37; Grimm, 1985: 114, fig. 6.   
Material: Key Biscaine 694: 1 specimen. Cayman Brac 007: 1 specimen. Puerto Rico 706: 1 specimen. St. Martin 097: 10 specimens; 529: 8 specimens; 529b: 10 specimens; 529c: 67 specimens; 538: 1 specimen; 538b: 1 specimen. St. Barthélemy 523: 725 specimens. St. Eustatius 508: 15 specimens; 515a: 4 specimens. St. Christopher 503: 42 specimens. Barbuda 675: 3 specimens. Montserrat 838: 14 specimens; 841: 2 specimens. Marie Galante 756: 1 specimen. Îles des Saintes 760: 17 specimens. Dominique 846: 10 specimens; 847: 1 specimen. Martinique 767: 2 specimens; 852: 37 specimens. Barbados 867: 13 specimens. Grenada 860: 2 specimens. 860A: 2 specimens. Trinidad 116: 4 specimens; 648: 20 specimens. Los Testigos 30: 2 specimens. Margarita 20: 4 specimens. Blanquilla 38: 1 specimen. Bonaire 44b: 6 specimens; 44c: 401 specimens; 44e: 12 specimens; 44A: 10 specimens; 44Ae: 4 specimens; 44B: 8 specimens; 44Ba: 10 specimens; 44C: 8 specimens; 45A: 16 specimens; 52: 17 specimens; 52a: 1 specimen; 52c: 14 specimens: 52d: 3 specimens; 52e: 1 specimem; 53: 5 specimens; 53e: 8 specimens; 53f: 1 specimen; 53g: 6 specimens; 54: 6 specimens; 54b: 6 specimens; 374: 2 specimens; 379a: 14 specimens; 379c: 5 specimens; 379d: 1 specimen; 379h: 2 specimens; 3791: 8 specimens; 882: 13 specimens; 882a: 8 specimens; 882A: 280 specimens: 901a: 15 specimens; 902: 14 specimens; 930: 10 specimens. Klein Bonaire 61a: 2 specimens; 64: 3 specimens. Curaçao 67: 1 specimen; 67a: 15 specimens; 70: 1 specimen; 74: 3 specimens; 74a: 2 specimens; 75a: 3 specimens; 76A: 3 specimens; 77A: 1 specimen; 77b: 5 specimen; 77c: 3 specimens; 82: 1 specimen; 339A: 1 specimen; 389B: 5 specimens; 395A: 2 specimens; 891: 1 specimen; 892: 5 specimens; 895: 3 specimens. Aruba 401: 16 specimens; 634: 3 specimens; 636: 11 specimens. Paraguaná 105: 41 specimens. Surinam 119: 8 specimens; 120: 2 specimens; 642A: 1 specimen; 646: 1 specimen; 923: 14 specimens; 929: 4 specimens. Habitat: Limnetic to mesohalines; salinity 0.03-7.3 %.  
Distribution: Cosmopolite. Neotropical occurrences: Argentina: Prov.  
Missiones, Entre Rios, Santa Fe (Cernosvitov, 1937; 1942; Di Persia, 1974). Uruguay (Cordero, 1931a). Bolivia: Dept. Santa Cruz (Martinez-Ansemil & Giani, 1986). Brazil: States São Paulo, Pernambuco, Pará, Amazonas (Marcus, 1943; 1944; du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1947; 1949). Venezuela: Dept. Falcon (Dumnicka, 1986). Guyana (Coates & Stacey, 1994), Surinam (Harman, 1974). Costa Rica (Harman, 1982a). Paraguaná; Aruba; Curaçao; Klein Bonaire; Bonaire; Blanquilla; Margarita; Los Testigos; Trinidad; Grenada; Barbados; Martinique; Dominique; Îles des Saintes; Marie Galante; Montserrat; Barbuda; St. Christoffer; St. Eustatius; St. Barthélemy; St. Martin; Anguilla; Virgin Gorda; Tortola; Anegada; Culebra; Puerto Rico; Haiti; Cayman Brac; Florida Keys (Styieren, 1892; Michaelsen, 1933; Dumnicka 1986; Righi & Hamoui).  
 Remarks: The relations of length and of thickeness of the needle teeth present a large inter- and intrapopulational gradation therefore we did not set a taxonomical distiction for worms with similar teeth and we accepted the synonymy of Aulophorus africanus proposed by Sperber (1948).
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 134-136, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2002.42.p119-167, http://zenodo.org/record/13226308