Key: Step 44. Family Naididae

44a. Dorsal bundles entirely lacking (except in a form of Chaetogaster diastrophus). The first 5 segments fused like head, bearing a single pair of ventral bundles (II), the next bundles appearing only in VI. Prostomium more or less rudimentary. Pharynx cylindrical, thick-walled. In mature individuals male pores, penial chaetae, and clitellum in VI.

(Genus Chaetogaster)

Step 45. Genus Chaetogaster

44b. Dorsal bundles present. Prostomium well-developed.

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