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Pontodrilus litoralis
Description
Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube, 1855)
Lumbricus litoralis Grube, 1855: 127.
Pontodrilus litoralis: Blakemore 2007: 4; SZederjesi 2015: 149.
Habitat. Marine littoral (Szederjesi 2015).
Distribution in the Balkan Peninsula. Greece (Thrace, Dikelle: Szederjesi 2015).
World distribution. Peregrine species regarded as native to southeastern Asia, distributed from the Mediterranean shores to India (Narayanan et al. 2014), the Caribbean (Csuzdi & Pavlíček 2009) and in Afrotropical region, Australia, Near East, North Africa, Oriental region and the pacific regions (Blakemore 2007; Rota 2013b).
Notes
Published as part of Misirlioğlu, İbrahim Mete & Stojanović, Mirjana, 2018, Distribution of non-lumbricid earthworms (Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Criodrilidae, Megascolecidae and Ocnerodrilidae) on the Balkans and Anatolia with first record of Amynthas morrisi (Beddard, 1892) from Turkey, pp. 197-205 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 201, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/1446759
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Pontodrilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Haplotaxida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Grube
- Species
- litoralis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube, 1855) sec. Misirlioğlu & Stojanović, 2018
References
- Grube, E. (1855) Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 27, 81 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 13989
- Blakemore, R. J. (2007) Origin and means of dispersal of cosmopolitan Pontodrilus litoralis (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). European Journal of Soil Biology, 43, 3 - 8. [S 3 - S 8]
- SZederjesi, T. (2015) New earthworm records from various parts of Greece (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Acanthodrilidae, Megascolecidae, Ocnerodrilidae). Opuscula Zoologica, Budapest, 46 (2), 143 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.18348 / opZool. 2015.2.143
- Narayanan, S. P., Sathrumithra, S., Kuriakose, D., Christopher, D., Thomas, A. P. & Julka, J. M. (2014) Second record of Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube, 1855) (Annelida: Oligochaeta) from Kerala state, India. Journal of Global Biosciences, 3 (2), 473 - 476.
- Rota, E. (2013 b) Fauna Europaea, Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae. FaunaEuropaea Version 2.6. 2. Available from: http: //: www. faunaeur. org / (accessed 29 August 2013)