Diplocardia deborahae Damoff & Reynolds 2017
- 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, USA 31061
- 2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA 53706
- 3. Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA 30602
Description
Diplocardia deborahae Damoff & Reynolds, 2017: New state record
Towns Co.: (2) Swallow Creek WMA, upland of Dismal Creek, 2 July 2007, Coll: MA Callaham, CN Lowe, BA Snyder, S Rostkowski; (5) Near Dismal Creek, Chattahoochee NF, 34.8985°N, 83.6676°W, Soil, Hardwood Forest, SW James, MA Callaham, MK Taylor, R Carrera-Martínez, 26 Sep 2017.
Previously recorded: N/ A. This species was described from five counties in Tennessee; this record represents the southernmost record.
Remarks. These specimens were collected in part by hand-digging, and in large part by a vibrational technique known as “grunting” (Mitra et al. 2009), whereby a wooden stake is driven into the ground and caused to vibrate with a piece of smooth metal. Several members of the genus Diplocardia exhibit an evacuation to the soil surface in response to this stimulus, and while this behavior is not unique to the genus, it is remarkable that an entire fish-bait industry is sustained by this activity in parts of Florida (Hendrix et al. 1994).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2007-07-02 , 2017-09-26
- Family
- Acanthodrilidae
- Genus
- Diplocardia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Damoff & Reynolds
- Species
- deborahae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2007-07-02 , 2017-09-26
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diplocardia deborahae Damoff, 2017 sec. Mcgee, Carrera-Martínez, Jr & Snyder, 2024
References
- Damoff, G. A. & Reynolds, J. W. (2017) Diplocardia deborahae, a new earthworm species (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae) from Eastern Tennessee, USA. Megadrilogica, 22 (12), 229 - 237.
- Mitra, O., Callaham, M. A. Jr., Smith, M. L. & Yack, J. E. (2009) Grunting for worms: Seismic vibrations cause Diplocardia earthworms to emerge from the soil. Biology Letters, 5, 16 - 19.
- Hendrix, P. F., Callaham, M. A. Jr. & Kirn, L. (1994) Ecology of nearctic earthworms in the southeastern USA. II. Effects of bait harvesting on Diplocardia (Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae) populations in Apalachicola National Forest, north Florida. Megadrilogica, 5, 73 - 76.