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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Steven V. Fend</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2009</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;A review of morphological characters for the western Nearctic genus&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kincaidiana&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;indicated that the two described species should be assigned to separate genera.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kincaidiana&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;freidris&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Cook was transferred to a new genus,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Altmanella.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;New material resembling&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;A.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;freidris&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was obtained from many sites throughout western North America. Morphology of the male reproductive structures varied among populations, and the most distinctive morphological differences were accounted for by splitting the taxon into two species, which roughly corresponded to large scale regional patterns. Typical&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;A.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;freidris&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;occurred in several Pacific Coast drainages.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Altmanella&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;idahoensis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sp.,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;mostly associated with the Snake River drainage, was distinguished from&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;A.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;freidris&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by shorter and less muscular atria and penial structures. A second new lumbriculid species with the same basic arrangement of reproductive organs was collected in southeastern North America, and was provisionally assigned to&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Altmanella.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;However, in contrast to the petiolate atria and large penial structures of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;A.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;freidris&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;A.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;idahoensis,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Altmanella&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;lenati&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sp.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;has tubular atria and simple male porophores.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.11646/zootaxa.2077.1.1</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Biotaxa</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>An evaluation of the genus Kincaidiana Altman, 1936, with the designation of Altmanella n. gen. (Annelida, Clitellata, Lumbriculidae)</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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