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Issue: Vol. 2732 No. 1: 5 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2732.1.4
Page range: 49–58
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 1

The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta)

Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum London
The Society for Environmental Exploration, 50-52 Rivington Street, London
The Society for Environmental Exploration, 50-52 Rivington Street, London
The Society for Environmental Exploration, 50-52 Rivington Street, London
Entomological Museum, Leon, Nicaragua
Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research group of HAS
Annelida Earthworms Nicaragua Eutrigaster new species

Abstract

In August 2009 the Natural History Museum London, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research group, Entomological Museum in Leon and The Society for Environmental Exploration, mounted the first earthworm collection expedition to Nicaragua. No native earthworm species had previously been recorded for this country. This paper lists 18 new species records for the Country with the description of two new taxa to science: Eutrigaster (Graffia) azul sp. n. and Eutrigaster (Graffia) nicaraoi sp. n. New data on the species Eutrigaster (Eutrigaster) oraedivitis Cognetti, 1904 is also presented here.

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