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Eudrilidae
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Family Eudrilidae
27. Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867) Lumbricus eugeniae Kinberg, 1867: 98.
Eudrilus decipiens Perrier, 1871: 1176.
Eudrilus boyeri Beddard, 1886: 302.
Eudrilus jullieni Horst, 1890: 225
Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg). Beddard 1895: 604. Further synonymies in Gates (1972), Blakemore (2010).
T. St. Helena Island (15.95o S, 5.716o W), South Atlantic. D. Dist. Idukki: Nedumkandam (Narayanan et al. 2012), Rajappara (Narayanan et al. 2012); Dist. Pathanamthitta: Kochupamba (Narayanan et al. 2012); Dist. Kollam: Edapalayam (ElAmmari et al. 2015); Dist. Thiruvananthapuram: Ulloor (Narayanan et al. 2012); Travancore (Fedarb 1898); exotic.
Notes
Published as part of Narayanan, S. Prasanth, Sathrumithra, S., Christopher, G., Thomas, A. P. & Julka, J. M., 2016, Checklist of the earthworms (Oligochaeta) of Kerala, a constituent of Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India, pp. 117-137 in Zootaxa 4193 (1) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/166646
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- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Haplotaxida
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- Eudrilidae
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References
- Kinberg, J. G. H. (1867) Annulata nova. Ofversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, Stockholm, 23, 97 - 103.
- Beddard, F. E. (1886) Description of some new or little known earthworms, together with an account of the variations in structure exhibited by Perionyx excavatus. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 298 - 314.
- Beddard, F. E. (1895) A monograph of the Order Oligochaeta. Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp 769.
- Gates, G. E. (1972) Burmese earthworms, an introduction to the systematic and biology of the megadrile oligochaetes with special reference to southeast Asia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 62 (7), 1 - 326.
- Narayanan, S. P., Sathrumithra, S., Christopher, G., Julka, J. M. & Thomas, A. P. (2012) Whether the exotic earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867) is displacing native species in Kerala. Malabar Trogon, 10 (3), 18 - 20.
- ElAmmari, N. E., Nair, G. A. & Vijayamohanan, T. G. (2015) Comparative study of the earthworm resources of Benghazi, Libya, a Chapparal biome, and Kollam district, Kerala, India, a tropical humid biome. Journal of Global Biosciences, 4 (2), 1412 - 1429.
- Fedarb, S. M. (1898) On some earthworms from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 11 (3), 431 - 437.