Published November 2, 2017 | Version v1

How to deal with cryptic species in Enchytraeidae, with recommendations on taxonomical descriptions

  • 1. 2University of A Coruña, Science Faculty
  • 2. IFAB Institute for Applied Soil Biology GmbH
  • 3. MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary
  • 4. Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology
  • 5. Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea
  • 6. ECT Ökotoxiologie GmbH, Böttgerstr. 2-14, 65439 Flörsheim, Germany
  • 7. Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno
  • 8. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg

Description

During the 12th International Symposium on Enchytraeidae, held in Tihany, Hungary (27–29 June 2016), the participants discussed cryptic species, i.e., species that are morphologically so similar that they are classified as the same species (Bickford et al. 2007), and how to deal with them taxonomically. Here we summarise the discussion together with a few additional comments, and we give recommendations for species descriptions in Enchytraeidae

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