Kazimierzidae Nxele & Plisko, 2016

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
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D7A551D-646D-49E2-A9AA-A14EACC67777
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7747054
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D2487EC-FFBC-1B78-FF3E-FAA1FEDCF9AC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Kazimierzidae Nxele & Plisko, 2016
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This recently erected family of earthworms, which includes 25 nominal species all in the single genus Kazimierzus , is restricted to the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces, including the Namaqualand areas, along the Atlantic region of South Africa. This is a hotspot of biodiversity ( Myers et al. 2000), with considerable topographical and botanic diversity, which will probably still lead to the discovery of new earthworm species, as observed by Nxele et al. (2017).