Herbettodrilus bahli Julka, 2004

  • Male pores paired in seminal grooves on xviii.
  • Prostomium prolobic.
  • Prostatic pores paired at ends of seminal grooves on xvii and xix.
  • Penial setae present.
  • Gizzard in V.
  • One pair of discrete, extramural calciferous glands, each gland bilobed, one lobe in xv and the other in xvi, both discharging into gut through a common duct in xv close to attachment of septum xiv / xv
  • Intestinal caeca and supra­-intestinal glands absent
  • Typhlosole simple lamelliform.
  • Micromeronephridia astomate, enteronephric paired tufts in iii, few scattered on body wall in xiv and posteriad segments; paired, stomate, enteronephric megameronephridia in xv and posteriad segments, discharging into rectum through paired excretory canals.
  • Single species recorded in India.
  • Type locality is Herbettu, Shimoga dist., Karnataka, India and is endemic.