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Microscolex phosphoreus
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Description
Microscolex phosphoreus (Dugès, 1837)
St. 6, 14.11.1982, 1 ad., 07.12.1983, 4 ad.; St. 8, 3 ad.; St. 10, 09.04.1985, 1 ad.
New record. Peregrine, synanthropic, introduced worldwide, and notable for its bioluminescence, this species has a larger invasive capacity and adaptability than M. dubius. In Europe it has spread even into deep coal mines in southern Poland (Rota & de Jong 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J. & Omodeo, Pietro, 2017, Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae), pp. 287-291 in Zootaxa 4311 (2) on page 288, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/847464
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Duges
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Acanthodrilidae
- Genus
- Microscolex
- Species
- phosphoreus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microscolex phosphoreus (Duges, 1837) sec. Rota, Schembri & Omodeo, 2017
References
- Rota, E. & de Jong, Y. (2015) Fauna Europaea: Annelida - Terrestrial Oligochaeta (Enchytraeidae and Megadrili), Aphanoneura and Polychaeta. Biodiversity Data Journal, 3 (e 5737), 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / bdj. 3. e 5737