Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy IV

Table of contents

Preface

Tomáš Pavlíček

Part I. Taxonomy and Phylogeny

♦ Saga of Herr Hilgendorf’s worms… (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae)

Blakemore, R. J.

♦ Extension of employing ITS region in the investigation of Hungarian Fridericia species (Oligochaeta: Enchytraeidae)

Boros, G., Cech, G., Ari, E., Dozsa-Farkas, K.

♦ Using molecular tools to identify New Zealand endemic earthworms in a mine restoration project (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae)

Boyer, S., Wratten, S. D.

♦ Significance of using nephridia in the taxonomy of family Enchytraeidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Dozsa-Farkas, K.

♦ Remarks on the South African endemic Proandricus lesothoensis species-group (Oligochaeta: Microchaetidae)

Plisko, J. D.

Part II. Zoogeography and Evolution

♦ Earthworm fauna of Kazakh upland (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Abukenova, V. S.

♦ Earthworm fauna of the western Mazandaran province, Iran (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae)

Ezzatpanah, S., Robabeh, L., Masoumeh, M., Hasan, S.

♦ Distribution of Octolasion cyaneum (Savigny, 1826) in Estonia 1993-2008 (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Kuu, A., Ivask, M.

♦ Distribution of endemic earthworm species in Turkey (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Misirlioglu, M.

♦ Significance of the Apuseni Mountains (the Carpathians) in the origin and distribution of Central European earthworm fauna (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Pop, A. A., Pop, V. V., Csuzdi, Cs.

Part III. Ecology & Environment

♦ Accumulation of heavy metals by earthworms in boron-contaminated area (Kirka-Eskisehir) (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Arslan, N., Cicek, A., Akkan, C., Kilinc, D., Aci, E.

♦ The characteristics of earthworm communities along vertically stratified transect of Velika Kapela Mountain grasslands (Croatia) (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Jaric, D., Hackenberger, B.K., Krcmar, S.

♦ Earthworm taxonomic structure of coffee plantations at three soil associations in Puerto Rico (Oligochaeta: Glossoscolecidae, Megascolecidae)

Ramos, C., Alfaro, M., Borges, S., Amador, J. A.

♦ Species richness and density of earthworms in western Uttar Pradesh, India (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae, Octochaetidae)

Singh, S. M., Prakash, O., Gangwar, G. R., Rachna

♦ Diversity of earthworms and ecology of the dominating species Lumbricus rubellus Hoffmeister, 1843 in the northern taiga podzols of the Murmansk region (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Zenkova, I. V.

♦ Littoral Oligochaeta (Lumbriculidae and Enchytraeidae) communities of some mountain lakes in the Eastern Black Sea Range (Turkey)

Yildiz, S., Ustaoglu, M. R., Balik, S.

Part IV. Morphology, Histology and Medicine

♦ Adaptive features of life forms in Aporrectodea caliginosa (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Abukenova, V. S., Khanturin, M. R.

♦ Earthworms in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae)

Shen, Y.

♦ Collagen distribution in the tissue of the earthworm Octodrilus complanatus (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Vavoulidou, E., Dellaporta, L., Bilalis, D. J.