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Eisenia Malm 1877

Description

Genus Eisenia Malm, 1877

Eisenia Malm, 1877: 45; Michaelsen 1900: 471; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 51.

Type species. Enterion fetidum Savigny, 1826.

Distribution. Palaearctic (Blakemore 2002).

Remarks. About 30 species are known (Blakemore 2002), but only one has been reported from Vietnam.

Notes

Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4140 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Malm
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Order
Crassiclitellata
Family
Lumbricidae
Genus
Eisenia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Eisenia Malm, 1877 sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016

References

  • Malm, 1877. Zoolog. Observ. VII, Annulater i hafvet utmid Sverges. Ofvers. Hortik. Forh. Goteborg, 14, 69 - 105.
  • Michaelsen, W. (1900) Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich, 10, 1 - 575.
  • Reynolds, J. W. & Cook, D. G. (1976) Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica: a catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (or Ottawa, Runge Press), 217 pp.
  • Savigny (1826) Analyse d'un Memoire sur les Lombrics par Cuvier. Memoires de l'Academie (royale) des sciences de l'Institut (imperial) de France, 5, 176 - 184.
  • Blakemore, R. J. (2002) Cosmopolitan Earthworms - an Eco - Taxonomic Guide to the Peregrine Species of the World. 2 nd Ed. VermEcology, PO BOX 414 Kippax, ACT 2615, Australia. August, 2002.