Lumbricidae

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Lumbricidae
Lumbricus terrestris, the Common European Earthworm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Annelida Class: Clitellata Subclass: Oligochaeta Order: Haplotaxida Family: Lumbricidae
Genera
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The Lumbricidae is a family of earthworms which includes most of the earthworm species well-known to Europeans. About 33 lumbricid species have become naturalized around the world ^[1], but the bulk of the species are in Holarctic: from Canada (e.g. Bimastos lawrenceae on Vancouver Island) and the United States (e.g. Eisenoides carolinensis, Eisenoides lonnbergi and most Bimastos spp.) and throughout Eurasia to Japan (e.g. Eisenia japonica, E. koreana and Helodrilus hachiojii). An enigmatic species in Tasmania is Eophila eti. There are currently 670 valid (sub-)species in about 42 recognized genera.^[2]

[edit] Genera

• Allolobophora
• Allolobophoridella
• Aporrectodea
• Cernosvitovia
• Dendrobaena
• Dendrodrilus
• Eisenia

• Eiseniona
• Eophila
• Ethnodrilus
• Eumenescolex
• Fitzingeria
• Helodrilus
• Iberoscolex
• Kritodrilus
• Lumbricus
• Microeophila
• Murchieona
• Norealidys
• Octodriloides
• Octodrilus
• Octolasion
• Orodrilus
• Perelia
• Postandrilus
• Proctodrilus
• Prosellodrilus
• Satchellius
• Scherotheca

[edit] References

1. ^ "Contents of "Cosmopolitan Earthworms" 1st and 2nd Editions, Blakemore (2002, 2006)". VermEcology. 2008. http://bio-eco.eis.ynu.ac.jp/eng/database/earthworm/COSMO2.doc. Retrieved on 2008-02-12. 
2. ^ "A Series of Searchable Texts on Earthworm Biodiversity, Ecology and Systematics from Various Regions of the World". YNU, COE Chapter 10: A list of valid, invalid and synonymous names of Criodriloidea and Lumbricoidea (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Criodrilidae, Sparganophilidae, Ailoscolecidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae, Lutodrilidae). 2007. http://bio-eco.eis.ynu.ac.jp/eng/database/earthworm/. Retrieved on 2008-01-04.