Martiodrilus (Botaria) lavellei Decaens & Bartz 2024, n. sp.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Martiodrilus (Botaria) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. (Fig. 7) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: AFE58CB8-CEE3-46FE-8576-0259AAF5E274 TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. French Guiana • Adult; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka Massif, tropical rainforest on DIADEMA project A trail, in the soil; 2°14’27”N, 54°27’15”W; 359 m a.s.l.; III.2015; T. Decaëns, E. Lapied leg.; BOLD Sample ID: EW-MI15-0105; MNHN. ETYMOLOGY. — This species is named in honour of Patrick Lavelle, in acknowledgement to his contribution for the study of tropical earthworm ecology. ECOLOGY. — This species is only known from the holotype specimen, which has been collected in the organo-mineral soil of a plateau forests (Fig. 7D, E). DISTRIBUTION. — Martiodrilus (B.) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. is only known from the Mitaraka Massif. DESCRIPTION External morphology (Fig. 7A, B) Body shape cylindrical. Body pigmentation dorsally light brown, ventrally beige. Body length: 56 mm after ethanol fixation. Body mass: 0.19 g after ethanol fixation. Diameter: 3.4 mm in the preclitellar region, 4.2 mm in the clitellum, 2.5 mm in the postclitellar region. Number of segments: 131. Prostomium proepilobic. One pair of longitudinal grooves going anterior to posterior through segment I in line of nephridial pores. Setae closely paired, ab beginning in II, cd in III. Setal arrangement aa:ab:bc:cd:dd = 8:1:10:2:34. Clitellum in (dorsal XV) XVI-XXV, saddle-shaped (Fig. 7A). Genital markings in V-XXIII, intraclitellar in XV-XXV (ab position). Tubercula pubertatis linear in 1/4 XX-½ XXV (Fig. 7B). Male pores not recognised, and ovipores not visible. Spermathecal pores in 5/6, 6/7 and 7/8, near nephridial pore. Nephridial pores begining in III, in CD line. Internal anatomy (Fig. 7C) Septa: membranous. Gizzard: muscular and well developed in VI, 1.80 × 2.30 mm (width × length). Calciferous glands: eight pairs, in VII-XIV with tubular composite structure. Esophagus-intestine transition in XVIII/XIX; intestine without caeca.Typhlosole abruptly begining in XXVI, structured as a long thin folded lamella occupying all the lumen. Hearts: five pairs, the two intestinal pairs well-developed in X-XI. Excretory apparatus holoic, nephridia with simple nephrostome. Testes sacs: semi-periesophageal in X and XI, enclosing basal part of hearts, calciferous glands and seminal vesicles. Seminal vesicles: two pairs in XI-XII, small lobulated occupying their segments only. Spermathecae: three pairs, VI, VII, VIII; ovoid elongated without diverticula. REMARKS Martiodrilus (B.) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. belongs to the subgenus Botaria because of the presence of three pairs of spermathecae. It differs from the majority of species in the subgenus by its clitellum beginning in XVI, a position which it shares only with the two Guyanese species Martiodrilus (Botaria) dewynteri Csuzdi & Pavlicek, 2011 and Martiodrilus (Botaria) helleri (Michaelsen, 1918). Although this needs to be confirmed on a larger number of specimens, the clitellum of M. (B.) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. seems less extended posteriously than in these two species, ending in XXV in the holotype specimen instead of XXVI to ½ XXVI. The position of tubercula pubertatis also differs among these species: 1/4 XX-½ XXV in M. (B.) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. instead of ½ XXI-½XXVI in M. (B.) dewynteri and XX-½ XXVI in M. (B.) helleri. Furthermore, M. (B.) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. is significantly smaller than M. (B.) helleri, and appears to have a lighter body pigmentation than M. (B.) dewynteri (light brown instead of brown-violet). Martiodrilus (B.) lavellei Decaëns & Bartz, n. sp. is clearly separated from other species of Martiodrilus from the Mitaraka Massif by its COI barcode (Table 2). This species corresponds to OTU#080 in Maggia et al. (2021).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".