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Issue: Vol. 5589 No. 1: 19 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.22
Page range: 265-269
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On the valid name of Savigny’s „earthworm” Enterion terrestre (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae)

Department of Zoology; Eszterházy Károly Catholic University; Eger; Hungary
Department of Zoology; The Natural History Museum; London
Department of Zoology; Eszterházy Károly Catholic University; Eger; Hungary
Annelida Crassiclitellata Lumbricidae

Abstract

There are several long-standing nomenclatural problems within the family Lumbricidae (Bouché 1976, Sims 1983). Some have been successfully resolved recently (e.g. Nicolson & Csuzdi 2018; Popović et al. 2025) but there are a few that still need to be addressed and the name Enterion terrestre Savigny, 1826 is one of them.

 

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