Zoology in the Middle East – Supplementum 4: Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy V (Annelida: Oligochaeta) Proceedings of the 5th International Oligochaeta Taxonomy Meeting Beatenberg, Switzerland, 11-15 April, 2011.

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These proceedings contain 22 papers, see table of contents for more details.

Contents

Tomáš Pavlíček: Preface: 3.
Robert J. Blakemore: Restating scope of genus Metaphire Sims & Easton, 1972: 40 years on: 5
Robert J. Blakemore: Japanese earthworms revisited a decade on: 15
Charlène Briard, Jiang-Ping Qiu, Qi Zhao, Muriel Guernion, Daniel Cluzeau: Phylogenetic study of some Aporrectodea species (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) based on molecular markers: 23
Tomáš Pavlíček, Yarin Hadid, Csaba Csuzdi: Opening Pandora’s box: Clitellum in phylogeny and taxonomy of earthworms: 31.
Jadwiga Danuta Plisko: Notes on status of the family Microchaetidae (Oligochaeta): 47
Victor V. Pop, Adriana Antonia Pop, Csaba Csuzdi: An annotated checklist of the Romanian earthworm fauna (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae): 59
Tarmo Timm: Life forms in Oligochaeta: a literature review: 71.
Eduardo Boothby Carlo, Sonia Borges, Mónica Alfaro: Abundance: and distribution of Pontodrilus litoralis in the shores of the Cabo Rojo Lighthouse, Puerto Rico: 83
Ghayoumi Razieh, Latif Robabeh: First recorded earthworms from the Mouteh Wildlife Refuge, Iran: 91
Michèle Glasstetter: Earthworm diversity in urban habitats of Basel (Northwestern Switzerland) (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae): 95
Mete Misirlioglu: Distribution of earthworms belonging to families Acanthodrilidae, Criodrilidae, and Megascolecidae in Turkey: 103
Tomáš Pavlíček, Csaba Csuzdi: Earthworm fauna of French Guiana: 107.
Satyendra M. Singh, Om Prakash: Species richness and density of earthworm populations in grasslands of Western Uttar Pradesh, India (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae, Octochaetidae): 111
Alexandra D. Solomou, Athanassios I. Sfougaris, Evangelia M. Vavoulidou, Csaba Csuzdi: The effects of farming practices on earthworm dynamics in olive groves of central Greece: 119
Ghanshyam Tripathi, K. R. Panwar: Biotic interaction of earthworms in arid pedoecosystem: 127
Ghanshyam Tripathi, K. R. Panwar: Earthworm fauna of Indian Thar Desert: 133
Qi Zhao, Daniel Cluzeau, Jing Sun, Jibao Jiang, Charlène Briard, Muriel Guernion, Jiang-Ping Qiu: Hainan earthworm community and its comparison with other East and Southeast Asia countries for geographical distribution and endemic rate: 141
Gergely Boros: First record of reproduction by fragmentation in the genus Marionina (Oligochaeta: Enchytraeidae): 151
Somayeh Ezzatpanah: Geographic differences in the setal pattern of Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826) in Iran: 157
Robert J. Blakemore: Call for a census of soil invertebrates (CoSI): 163
Maxim P. Shaskov: Lumbricus - database on earthworms ranges: 171
Emma Sherlock, Louise Berridge: History of the earthworm collections at the Natural History Museum, London: 177

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