TABLE 4. Morphological comparison of the species of Eisenia.
E. sibirica Perel & Graphodatsky, 1984 E. lagodechiensis Michaelsen, 1910 (HNHM11047) E. nana Perel, 1985 E. ventripapillata Manter, 1940 E. atlavinitae Perel & Graphodatsky, 1984 E. tracta Perel, 1985 E. angusta Perel, 1994 E. balatonica Pop, 1943 E. fetida Savigny, 1826 E. nordenskioldi Eisen, 1879 *
Diameter 2.5-4 5 2.5-3 3-4 4-6 5-12 2.5-3 1.5-2.5 2-4 3.57-6.5
Colour - - - - Dark purple - segments xv-xx have a weak purple pigmentation, strongly blurred on the sides of the ix-xi segments Sienna-brown dark violet sometimes alternating stripes of darker segmental with paler intersegmental areas Unpigmented to pale to different shades of purple
1st dorsal pore - - - - 4/5 - 4/5 4/5 3/4, 5/6 4/5
Clitellum xxvii-xxxii, 1/2xxxiii xxv-xxxiv xxvii, 1⁄2 xxvii-xxxiii xxvi-xxxiii xxvi(xxvii)- xxxiii xxvi-xxxiii xxvii-1⁄2 xxxiii xxiv, xxv–xxx (xxiv), xxv, xxvi, xxvii–xxxi, xxxii, (xxxiii) xxiv-xxxiv
Tubercles xxix-xxx 1⁄2xxviii-1⁄2xxxii xxix-xxxii 1⁄2xxviii,xxviii-xxx,1⁄2xxxi xxviii, 1⁄2xxviii-xxxi xxix-1⁄2xxxii 1⁄2xxix-1⁄2xxxi xxvi-xxix 1/2 xxviii, xxviii–xxx, xxxi xxvii-xxxii
Papillae ab viii, xxviii-xxxi, cd ix-xi ab xxv-xxxviii, cd ix-xi ab viii-xii, cd x, xi ab x, xi, xxvi-xxxii cd x, (xi) ab vii, viii, xi-xiii, xxvi-xxxiii, xxxiv cd ix-xi ab viii-x, xvi, xvii, xxiii-xxxvi, xxxvii cd xi, xii ab xi, xii, xvi, xxvi-xxxii ab x, xi, xxii, xxiii abcd ix, x, xi ab vii-xiii, xvixviii, xxi-xxxv cd viii-xiii
Calciferous glands - - - - xi-xii no diverticula - xi-xii large no diverticula xi, xii with diverticula x-xii no diverticula xi-xii no diverticula