Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867)

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9. Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867) View in CoL

Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867) View in CoL — Michaelsen 1908: 26. Michaelsen 1909: 6. Gates 1942: 98. Gates 1954: 223–224. Gates 1972: 51–52. Borges 1988: 315–326. Reynolds & Reynolds 2001: 17, 18. Reynolds & Reynolds 2004a: 15, 16. Reynolds & Reynolds 2006: 89. Fragoso & Brown 2007: 66 (table). Rodríguez et al. 2007: 98 (table). Reynolds & Reynolds 2007: 19, 20. Blakemore 2015: 528–535, fig. 3 (map).

Distribution. Haiti ( Michaelsen 1909; Gates 1942; Gates 1972; Borges 1988; Reynolds & Reynolds 2001; Rodríguez et al. 2007; Blakemore 2015); HT, Nord Department, Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, Cap-Haïtien (Site 2, Fig. 1) ( Michaelsen 1908); HT, Ouest Department, Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Port-au-Prince (Site 1, Fig. 1) ( Michaelsen 1908); HT, Artibonite Department, Marmelade Arrondissement, Saint-Michel-de-l'Atalaye (Site 12, Fig. 1) ( Gates 1954). Dominican Republic ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2004a; Rodríguez et al. 2007); DO, Puerto Plata Province, Sosúa Municipality, Hotel Casa Marina Beach and Reef (Site 3, Fig. 1) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2001); DO, Puerto Plata Province, Luperón Municipality, Luperón Beach Resort (Site 13, Fig. 1) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2004a); DO, Espaillat Province, Gaspar Hernández Municipality, Bahia Principe Grand San Juan (Site 14, Fig. 1) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2007).

References

Blakemore, R. J. (2015) Eco-taxonomic profile of an iconic vermicomposter - the ' African Nightcrawler' earthworm, Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg, 1867). African Invertebrates, 56 (3), 527-548. https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.056.0302

Borges, S. (1988) Los Oligoquetos terrestres de Puerto Rico. Thesis. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 376 pp.

Fragoso, C. & Brown, G. G. (2007) Ecologia y Taxonomia de las lombrices de tierra en Latinoamerica: El primer Encuentro Latino-Americano de Ecologia y Taxonomia de Oligoquetos (ELAETAO 1). In: Brown, G. G. & Fragoso, C. (Eds.), Minhocas na America Latina: Biodiversidade e Ecologia. Embrapa Soja, Londrina, pp. 33-75.

Gates, G. E. (1942) Check list and bibliography of North American earthworms. The American Midland Naturalist, 27 (1), 86-108. https://doi.org/10.2307/2421027

Gates, G. E. (1954) Exotic earthworms of the United States. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 111 (6), 217-258.

Gates, G. E. (1972) Burmese Earthworms. An introduction to the systematics of megadrile oligochaetes with special references to southeast Asia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 62 (7), 1-326. https://doi.org/10.2307/1006214

Michaelsen, W. (1908) Die Oligochaten Westindiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 11, 13-32.

Michaelsen, W. (1909) Oligochaeta fur 1908. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 75 (2), 1-10.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2001) Nuevos datos de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) de la Republica Dominicana. Megadrilogica, 8 (5), 17-19.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2004 a) Nuevos registros de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta: Glossoscolecidae) de la Republica Dominicana. Megadrilogica, 10 (3), 14-16.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2006) Sobre algunas lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) de Honduras, C. A. Megadrilogica, 10 (11), 87-91.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2007) Primeros registros de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) para la provincia de Espaillat, Republica Dominicana. Megadrilogica, 11 (2), 19-20.

Rodriguez, C., Borges, S., de los Angeles Martinez, M., Fragoso, C., James, S. W. & Gonzalez, G. (2007) Biodiversidad y ecologia de las lombrices de tierra en las islas caribenas. In: Brown, G. G. & Fragoso, C. (Eds.), Minhocas na America Latina: Biodiversidade e Ecologia. Embrapa Soja, Londrina, pp. 79-98.