Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1857)

• Male and spermathecal pores minute and inconspicuous.
• Female pore small transverse slit at left side of mid-ventral line just in front of intersegment furrow xiv/xv.
• Lumbricine in regular furrow, but enlarged and located in alternate positions on adjacent segments in tail region.
• Clitellum saddle-shaped generally covering segments xv-xxii/xxiii.
• Dorsal pores absent.
• Calciferous glands visible through the body wall in live specimen.
• Digestive system with paired “Panicled tubular” calciferous glands in vii-ix.
• First Segment and snout (prostomium) often elongated as a long thin proboscis when the worm is exploring the area.
• Body pale, light pink in head.
• Single species found in India and is exotic in origin.
• Type locality is found in Grass lawn behind the Museu de Ecologia Fritz Müller Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil (Neotype) .