Parryodrilus lavellei Julka, 1997

  • Male pores (combined male and prostatic pores) paired, large slits in line with b. discharging directly on the body surface of xviii, at lateral ends of transverse furrow across a tumescent male field extending laterally to mid bc.
  • Female pores paired, minute at lateral ends of a transverse groove, anteromedian to a on xiv.
  • Prostomium proepilobic.
  • First dorsal pore xi/xii.
  • Clitellum annular.
  • Lumbricine.
  • Genital marking absent.
  • Gizzard large in v.
  • Calciferous glands 2 pairs, discrete extramural in xv-xvi.
  • Intestine begins in xviii.
  • Intestinal caecae and supra-intestinal glands absent.
  • Typhlosole a low ridge beginning in xxvi-xxvii.
  • Holandric, testes and male funnels free in x and xi.
  • Seminal vesicles paired small racemose in xi and xii.
  • Prostate tubular paired in xviii extending to xix-xxi.
  • Penial setae absent.
  • Spermathecae unpaired in viii.
  • Micromeronephridia astomate,enteronephric paired tufts in v.
  • Megameronephridia exonephric in caudal segments.
  • Length 83-90 mm.
  • Single species recorded in India.
  • Type locality in Nilambur, Malapuram dist., Kerala, India and endemic.