Eisenia fetida Savigny 1826
Authors/Creators
- 1. Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44618, Nepal
Description
Eisenia fetida Savigny, 1826
Enterion fetidum Savigny, 1826: 182.
Lumbricus semifasciatus Burmeister, 1835: 33.
Helodrilus (Eisenia) foetidus (Savigny) Michaelsen, 1913: 551.
Allolobophora (Eisenia) fetida (Savigny) Stephenson, 1923: 499.
Further synonyms in Blakemore (2012).
Type locality: Paris (42.8566°N, 2.35222°E), France
Distribution in Nepal: Gandaki Province, Kaski District, Phirke Khola-Pokhara; Bagmati Province, Kathmandu (Nesemann et al. 2007) and Macchegaun, Kirtipur (Singh 2022)
Distribution elsewhere: Africa, Asia, and Australia, Bermuda, Europe, India, North America, South America, Russia (Perel 1997; Csuzdi & Zicsi 2003; Reynolds & Fragoso 2004; Narayanan et al. 2023).
Habitat: Moist soil and bottom of the streams, dung, vermicomposting pots, forest, garden, roadside, leaves, logs, compost (Nesemann et al. 2007; Ahmed et al. 2020; Miglani et al. 2022; Singh 2022).
Ecology: Epigeic (Szederjesi 2013; Miglani et al. 2022).
Remarks: Exotic earthworm species widely used in vermicomposting (Najar & Khan 2011; Sankar & Patnaik 2018). Widespread, showing cosmopolitan occurrence (Gates 1972). Probable native range: Caucasus region in Russia (Perel 1997).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Savigny
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Lumbricidae
- Genus
- Eisenia
- Species
- fetida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eisenia fetida Savigny, 1826 sec. Singh & Khanal, 2025
References
- Savigny, J. C. (1826) Analyse d'un Memoire sur les Lombrics par Cuvier. Memoires de l'Academie des sciences de l'Institut de France, 5, 176-184.
- Burmeister, H. (1835) Zoologischer Hand-Atlas zum Schulgebrauch und Selbstunterricht. Georg Reiner, Berlin, 42 pp.
- Michaelsen, W. (1913) Die Oligochaten des Kaplandes. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographieder Tiere, 34, 473-556. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.19897
- Stephenson, J. (1923) The Fauna of British India- Oligochaeta including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, 518 pp.
- Blakemore, R. J. (2012) Cosmopolitan earthworms - an eco-taxonomic guide to the peregrine species of the world. 5 th Edition: VermEcology Solutions, Yokohama, 850 + 350 pp.
- Nesemann, H., Sharma, S., Sharma, G., Khanal, S. N., Pradhan, B., Shah, D. N. & Shah, R. D. T. (2007) n. k. In: Aquatic invertebrates of the Ganga River System. Chandi Media Pvt. Ltd., Kathmandu, pp. 111-162.
- Singh, A. K. (2022) Earthworm diversity and distribution in Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Central Nepal. International Journal of Applied Science and Biotechnology, 10 (2), 124-133. https://doi.org/10.3126/ijasbt.v10i2.45105
- Perel, T. S. (1997) The earthworms of the fauna of Russia. Nauka, Moscow, 97 pp.
- Csuzdi, C. & Zicsi, A. (2003) Earthworms of Hungary (Annelida: Oligochaeta; Lumbricidae). In: Csuzdi, C. & Mahunka, S. (Eds.), Pedozoologica Hungarica 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, pp. 1-271.
- Reynolds, J. W. & Fragoso, C. (2004) The earthworms (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae and Ocnerodrilidae) of Bermuda. Megadrilogica, 10 (4), 17-26.
- Narayanan, S. P., Paliwal, R., Kurien, V. T., Thomas, A. P. & Julka, J. M. (2023) Earthworms (Clitellata: Moniligastrida, Crassiclitellata) of India: Distribution and Status. Department of Printing and Publishing - Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, 378 pp.
- Ahmed, S., Julka, J. M. & Kumar, H. (2020) Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Megadrili) of Solan, a constituent of Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot, India. Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle " Grigore Antipa ", 63 (1), 19-50. https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.63.e49099
- Miglani, R., Ahmed, S., Reynolds, J. W., Parveen, N., Kumar, A. & Bisht, S. S. (2022) A comprehensive checklist of the earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) of Uttarakhand, India. Megadrilogica, 27 (10), 107-133.
- Szederjesi T. (2013) New earthworm records from the former Yugoslav countries (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae). Opuscula Zoologica Budapest, 44, 61-76.
- Najar, I. A. & Khan, A. B. (2011) Earthworm communities of Kashmir Valley, India. Tropical Ecology, 52 (2), 151-162.
- Sankar, A. S. & Patnaik, A. (2018) Impact of soil physico-chemical properties on distribution of earthworm populations across different land use patterns in southern India. The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 79 (1), 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41936-018-0066-y
- Gates, G. E. (1972) Burmese earthworms: An introduction to the systematics and biology of Megadrile Oligochaetes with special reference to Southeast Asia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 62 (7), 1-326. https://doi.org/10.2307/1006214