Proceedings of the 3rd IOTM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy III

(Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Proceedings of the 3rd International Oligochaeta Taxonomy Meeting (3rd IOTM)
Platres, Cyprus, April 2nd to 6th, 2007

Tomáš Pavlíček and Patricia Cardet

Under the auspices of the Environment Service of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of the Republic of Cyprus


 

 

Table of contents

Part I. Taxonomy and Phylogeny

Blakemore Robert J.: Description of a mysterious worm from Tasmania

Blakemore Robert J.: Phylogeny of Megascolecoidea revisited with recourse to non-molecular means

Blakemore Robert J.: Review of Oriental pheretimoids (Pheretima auct. Megascolecidae) with description of a new genus

Dózsa-Farkas Klára: Taxonomical importance of spermatheca (receptaculum seminis) with special attention to Enchytraeidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Lowe Christopher N. and Butt Kevin R.: Preliminary evidence for the adoption of Allolobophora virescens (Savigny, 1826)

Moreno Ana G., Borges Sonia and Teisaire Ernestina S.: The Family Acantodrilidae Clasus, 1880 in South America

Moreno Ana G., Teisaire Ernestina, Borges Sonia and Barriga Javier: An initial study on the relative distance between setae

Plisko Jadwiga D.: A re-assessment of the South African Tritogenia zuluensis species-group, with remarks on included species (Oligochaeta: Microchaetidae)

Pop Adriana A., Csuzdi Csaba, Wink Michael and Pop Victor V.: Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the genera Octolasion Orley, 1885, Octodrilus Omodeo, 1956 and Octodriloides Zicsi, 1986 (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) based on nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial 16S rDNA and COI genes

 

Part II. Biogeography, Faunistics and Ecology

Blakemore Robert J.: Seeking consensus on main categories of ecological strategies of earthworms

Borges Sonia and Moreno Ana G.: New earthworm records for Vieques, Puerto Rico

Misirlioğlu Mete, Pavlíček Tomáš and Csuzdi Csaba: Earthworm biodiversity in Turkey: An overview

Norgrove Lindsey, Yonghachea, Prosper Y. and Csuzdi Csaba: Earthworm diversity and densities in land invaded by Imperata cylindrica and Chromolaena odorata in the Western Cameroon highlands

Ouahrani Ghania and Gheribi-Aoulmi Zoubida: Settlement of the lumbricidae in the semi-arid region of Constantine (eastern Algeria)

Pavlíček Tomáš: Does the autochthonous earthworm fauna emigrate from the Levant to Cyprus?

 

Part III. Methodology and Field Guides

Pop Antonia A., Wink Michael and Csuzdi Csaba: Progress in systematics of terrestrial Oligochaeta by using molecular data

Sherlock Emma and Jones David T.: A Field Guide to British Earthworms to support a National Survey

 

 

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