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New earthworm records from Austria (Megadrili: Lumbricidae)

Abstract

Earthworm collecting trips to different parts of Austria – the Karawanks, Carinthia, Lower and Western Austria –resulted in recording altogether 17 species. Based on the morphological data, Dendrobaena velkovrhia Mršić, 1988 is found to be a synonym of Dendrobaena auriculifera Zicsi, 1969. The problems with the previously published Eisenia lucens (Waga, 1857) records and these specimens’ supposed identity with E. spelaea (Rosa, 1901) are also discussed

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