Dendrobaena kervillei (Michaelsen, 1910)

Description – External – Body length 75–90 mm, diameter 5-7 mm, no. segments 137–145. Color pink on dorsal and paler on ventral. Head epilobous, first dorsal pore in 5/6. Glandular tumescence usually on 10, 11, 16, 28 – 32 ab. Setae distantly standing. Clitellum on segments 25 – 34 saddle-shaped. Tubercles on 30–1/2 32. Male pore on 15 between setae b–c, great frequently protruding into neighboring segments. Nephridial pores irregularly alternate between setal lines b–d.

Internal –Dissepiments 6/7–8/9 strongly strengthened, 9/10–14/14 thickened. Crop in 15–16, gizzards in 17–18. Two pairs of testes in 10, 11,  and four pairs of seminal vesicles in  9 – 12. Spermathecae two pairs in 9/10, 10/11, open near to the mid-dorsal line. Calciferous lamellae in ½ 10 – 11, diverticulum lacking. Last pair of lateral hearts in 11 accompanied by a pair of small extraoesophageals in segment 12. Excretory system holonephridial. Nephridial bladders are of sausage-shaped. Cross section of longitudinal muscle layer is of fasciculated type.

Distribution – This species is known from Mt., Hermon and from the Anti-Lebanon Mts.