Komarekionidae Gates, 1974

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, Zootaxa 5255 (1), pp. 417-438 : 424

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7747056
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scientific name	Komarekionidae Gates, 1974
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There is only one species in this monogeneric Nearctic family: Komarekiona eatoni Gates. It is found only in the mid-Atlantic states west to southern Illinois, USA ( Gates 1974; Reynolds 2020). Interestingly, the specimens east of the Smoky Mountains are amphimictic while those west of the Smokies are parthenogenetic ( Reynolds 2020).