Cantabrodrilus Martínez-Ansemil, 2025

Martínez-Ansemil, Enrique & Sambugar, Beatrice, 2025, Inventory of the inland-water Phallodrilinae (Clitellata: Naididae), with descriptions of a new genus and five new species from groundwaters of southern Europe, Zootaxa 5692 (3), pp. 446-468 : 455

Cantabrodrilus Martínez-Ansemil gen. nov.

Type species. Cantabrodrilus pilarae Martínez-Ansemil sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Freshwater subterranean phallodrilines. Somatic setae bifid. Penial setae present, single pointed hook-shaped. Coelomocytes absent. Spermathecal pores in segment X. Vasa deferentia narrow, entering apical ends of atria. Atria tripartite, elongate; ental part strongly muscular, middle part tubular U-shaped, ectal part thin-walled. Two large prostate glands per atrium; the anterior one attached near entrance of vas deferens and the posterior one at ectal end of atrium.

Etymology. The name Cantabrodrilus means that the type species is a “worm” (Greek drilos) from Cantabria.