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Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution
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- 1. Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Biology, TR-26040 Eskisehir, Turkey. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-8478
- 2. Oligochaetology Laboratory, 9-1250 Weber Street East, Kitchener, ON Canada N2A 4E1, and Research Associate, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB, Canada E2K 1E5.
- 3. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology and Ecology, Radoja Domanovića 12, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
- 4. University of Kragujevac, Institute for Information Technologies Kragujevac, Department of Sciences, Jovana Cvijića bb, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
- 5. Maharishi International University, Department of Regenerative Agriculture, Fairfield, IA, 52557, USA.
- 6. Dept. of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary.
- 7. CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
- 8. Taxonomia Biodiversity Fund, 7 rue Beccaria, 72012, Paris, France.
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Misirlioğlu, Mete, Reynolds, John Warren, Stojanović, Mirjana, Trakić, Tanja, Sekulić, Jovana, James, Samuel W., Csuzdi, Csaba, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lapied, Emmanuel, Phillips, Helen R. P., Cameron, Erin K., Brown, George G. (2023): Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution. Zootaxa 5255 (1): 417-438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33
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