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Eudrilidae Claus 1880

Creators

  • 1. Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Biology, TR- 26040 Eskisehir, Turkey. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9928 - 8478
  • 2. Oligochaetology Laboratory, 9 - 1250 Weber Street East, Kitchener, ON Canada N 2 A 4 E 1, and Research Associate, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB, Canada E 2 K 1 E 5.
  • 3. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology and Ecology, Radoja Domanovića 12, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
  • 4. University of Kragujevac, Institute for Information Technologies Kragujevac, Department of Sciences, Jovana Cvijića bb, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
  • 5. Maharishi International University, Department of Regenerative Agriculture, Fairfield, IA, 52557, USA.
  • 6. Dept. of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary.
  • 7. CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
  • 8. Taxonomia Biodiversity Fund, 7 rue Beccaria, 72012, Paris, France.

Description

Eudrilidae Claus, 1880

The Eudrilidae is a peculiar earthworm family with internal fertilisation (Clausen 1965; Sims 1969). It consists of 45 genera and 305 species (plus 21 subspecies) distributed in tropical Africa from south of the Sahara to the Kalahari Desert and northern South Africa (Sims 1987). There are only two species in the family regarded as widely introduced peregrines: Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg) and Hyperiodrilus africanus Beddard. The first species, commonly called the "African Nightcrawler" is widespread, found mainly in vermiculture outside its native range (West Africa) throughout the tropics and sub-tropics in Latin America, the Caribbean, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia (Blakemore 2015). Rarely has this species been found inhabiting soils (Blakemore 2015) and not compost beds, and its survival under these conditions probably requires high moisture and the presence of abundant litter, or organic resources, which are its major food source. The second species, H. africanus can also be found frequently in compost-beds and high organic content soils, but its distribution is more restricted, being known from Western (Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Gabon) and Central Africa (Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola) (Tondoh & Lavelle 2005) and Brazil (Righi 1972; Sousa et al. 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Misirlioğlu, Mete, Reynolds, John Warren, Stojanović, Mirjana, Trakić, Tanja, Sekulić, Jovana, James, Samuel W., Csuzdi, Csaba, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lapied, Emmanuel, Phillips, Helen R. P., Cameron, Erin K. & Brown, George G., 2023, Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution, pp. 417-438 in Zootaxa 5255 (1) on page 423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33, http://zenodo.org/record/7745110

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Eudrilidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Crassiclitellata
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Claus
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Eudrilidae Claus, 1880 sec. Misirlioğlu, Reynolds, Stojanović, Trakić, Sekulić, James, Csuzdi, Decaëns, Lapied, Phillips, Cameron & Brown, 2023

References

  • Clausen, M. W. (1965) Description of two new species of Libyodrilus Beddard, 1891, with remarks on the genus and on the female system in the family Eudrilidae. Videnskabelige Meddelelser Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 128, 273 - 292.
  • Sims, R. W. (1969) Internal fertilization in Eudrilid earthworms with the description of a new Pareudriline genus and species (Oligochaeta) from Ghana. Journal of Zoology, 157, 437 - 447. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1969. tb 01714. x
  • Sims, R. W. (1987) Review of the Central African earthworm family Eudrilidae (Oligochaeta). In: Bonvicini Pagiliai, A. M. & Omodeo, P. (Eds.), On earthworms. Mucchi, Modena, pp. 359 - 388.
  • Blakemore, R. J. (2015) Eco-taxonomic profile of an iconic vermicomposter - the ' African Night-crawler' earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867). African Invertebrates, 56 (3), 527 - 548. https: // doi. org / 10.5733 / afin. 056.0302
  • Tondoh, J. E. & Lavelle, P. (2005) Population dynamics of Hyperiodrilus africanus (Oligochaeta, Eudrilidae) in Ivory Coast. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 21, 493 - 500. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0266467405002506
  • Righi, G. (1972) Contribuic " o ao conhecimento dos Oligochaeta brasileiros. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 25, 148 - 166.
  • Sousa, S. C., Hernandez-Garcia, L. M. & Rousseau, G. X. (2020) A new species of Pontoscolex earthworm (Rhinodrilidae, Clitellata) from the Gurupi Biological Reserve, along with records of earthworm species from the Amazon region of Maranh " o, Brazil. Zootaxa, 4801, 105 - 114. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4801.1.4