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- Title
UPDATED LIST OF EARTHWORMS (CLITELLATA, MEGADRILI) FROM TURKEY.
- Authors
Mısırlıoğlu, Mete; Valchovski, Hristo; Reynolds, John Warren
- Abstract
In this study, an updated list of Turkish earthworm species is presented. In the last five years, several new species were added to the earthworm fauna of Turkey namely: Amynthas morrisi, Dendrobaena cevdeti, Dendrobaena cognettii, Dendrobaena pavliceki, Dendrobaena szalokii, Dendrobaena taurica, Eisenia andrei, Eisenia kontschani, Eisenia patriciae, Healyella zicsii and Octolasion cyaneum. According to the current list, 87 taxa have been recorded so far. Two of these taxa belong to Acanthodrilidae, one taxon of Criodrilidae, 80 taxa of Lumbricidae and four taxa of Megascolecidae; 32 taxa are endemic for the territory of Turkey.
- Subjects
EARTHWORMS; SPECIES distribution; LUMBRICIDAE; MEGASCOLECIDAE; EARTHWORM anatomy; TAXONOMY
- Publication
Megadrilogica, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 8, p99
- ISSN
0380-9633
- Publication type
Article