New records of pristina proboscidea and P. aequiseta (oligochaeta : naididae)‎ from Iraq

الملخص EN

Many specimens of both Pristine proboscides Baddard, 1896 and P.

a equiseta Bourne, 1891, were collected from shallow water beside shatt Al-Arab River in Al-Garma village in Basra governorate.

Morphological characteristics were studied.

The first important of these characteristics is the absence of elongated hair setae in Pristine proboscides and the presence of giant ventral setae in the fourth segment of P.

a equiseta.

This is the first record of these two species of oligochaeta, Naididae in Iraq.