Atatina Righi, 1971

Decaëns, Thibaud, Bartz, Marie Luise Carolina, Bartz, arolina, Feijoo-Martínez, Alexander, Goulpeau, Arnaud, Lapied, Emmanuel, Marchán, Daniel F., Maggia, Marie-Eugénie, Papuga, Guillaume & James, Samuel W., 2024, Earthworms (Oligochaeta, Clitellata) of the Mitaraka range (French Guiana): commented checklist with description of one genus and eighteen species new to science, Zoosystema 46 (9), pp. 196-244 : 223

Genus Atatina Righi, 1971

Atatina Righi, 1971: 34 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Atatina puba Righi, 1971 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Setae arranged in eight regular longitudinal lines. One pair of intra-clitellar male pores. Gizzard in VI. Four to five pairs of calciferous glands in segments IX-XIV, of trabecular structure, sacculiform and opening widely into the esophagus. Genital apparatus metandric and metagynous. Seminal vesicles long, extended posteriously across many segments. spermathecae in pre-testicular segments. Ovaries in XIII ( Righi 1971; Righi et al. 1978).

DISTRIBUTION. — Atatina comprises two species from Brazil (not including the species described here) (http://taxo.drilobase.org/; Misirlioğlu et al. 2023; Brown et al. 2023).