New earthworm species and records from the Southern Carpathians (Megadrili: Lumbricidae)

  • Tímea Szederjesi Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7695-1468
  • Victor V. Pop Institute of Biological Research, Cluj-Napoca, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2732-7137
  • Orsolya Márton Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
  • Csaba Csuzdi Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0319-7836
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.65.2.123.2019
Keywords: earthworms, Lumbricidae, species, Carpathians, Romania

Abstract

Recent collecting trips to different parts of the Southern Carpathians resulted in reporting 26 earthworm species, among them two species new to science: Dendrobaena cinerea sp. n. and Octodrilus banaticus sp. n. Moreover, Allolobophora pannonica (Cognetti, 1906) has been resurrected from synonymy of A. mehadiensis mehadiensis Rosa, 1895 and reinstated as a separate species. With all these, the number of earthworm species and subspecies present in Romania is now 80.

Published
2019-05-31
How to Cite
SzederjesiT., PopV. V., MártonO., & CsuzdiC. (2019). New earthworm species and records from the Southern Carpathians (Megadrili: Lumbricidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 65(2), 123–142. https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.65.2.123.2019
Issue
Vol. 65 No. 2 (2019): Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Section
Article

Copyright (c) 2019 Tímea Szederjesi, Victor V. Pop, Orsolya Márton, Csaba Csuzdi

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Manuscripts must be solely the work of the author(s) stated, must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The authors retain copyright and publishing rights without restrictions of papers published in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.

Most read articles by the same author(s)