Shimodrilus Julka, 2004

  • Male pores paired in seminal grooves on xviii.
  • Prostatic pores paired at ends of seminal grooves on xvii and xix.
  • Prostomium prolobic to proepliobic.
  • Single gizzard in v.
  • Large extramural calciferous glands in xvi with calciferous ridges extending to xviii.
  • Intestinal caecae and supra-intestinal glands absent.
  • Typhlosole simple lamellicorn.
  • Penial setae present.
  • Micromeronephridia astomate, exonephric, small paired tufts on body wall in ii-iv on septa in v-xii, in clusters of iv-v in xiii and posteriad segments.
  • Paired stomata exonephric megameronephridia lateral to micromeronephridia in xvii and posteriad segments.
  • Two species recorded in India viz.,

Sl No Species Type locality Nature
1. bhatkalensis Bhatkal road, Shimoga dist., Karnataka, India Endemic
2. karniensis Near Karni, Shimoga dist., Karnataka, India Endemic