New Data to the Earthworm Fauna of the Korean Peninsula with Redescription of Eisenia koreana (Zicsi) and Remarks on the Eisenia nordenskioldi Species Group (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae).

ABSTRACT: Yong Hong and Csaba Csuzdi (2016) The earthworm fauna of the Korean peninsula, especially the Northern part (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is still poorly known. Altogether 148 earthworm taxa are reported from Korea of which 22, including some uncertain records, belong to the Holarctic family Lumbricidae. From these 22 lumbricid taxa only eight are thought to be autochthonous, including the widely distributed Eisenia nordenskioldi species group which consists of six highly diverged DNA lineages. Due to a lack of material, the phylogenetic affinities of the Korean E. nordenskioldi s.l. specimens have not been determined so far. Here we report on the first lumbricid records from the Northern part of the peninsula (DPRK) after the description of the endemic earthworm species Eisenia

SUBMITTER: Hong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6511822 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature