Open AccessTwo New Species of Lumbricidae from Illinois
Author(s) -
Frank Smith,
Elizabeth Mae. Gittins
Publication year - 1915
Publication title -
illinois natural history survey bulletin/bulletin - illinois natural history survey
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2644-0687
pISSN - 0073-4918
DOI - 10.21900/j.inhs.v10.377
Subject(s) - subgenus , lumbricidae , genus , geography , ecology , oligochaeta (plant) , species group , biology , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , earthworm
But few species of endemic Lumbricida- have been described from the United States and none from Illinois. The species here described and others of which descriptions are in preparation are of the small group which has had its chief development in North America and which has been designated by Michaelsen as the subgenus Bimastus ofthe genus Helodrilus.
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