Soil nutrient recovery has emerged as a critical issue to maintain the soil fertility. However,
the use of some organic and inorganic chemicals in agricultural and industrial systems gives …

In the current paper we present an updated checklist of all the megadrile earthworms
(Crassiclitellata: Annelida) in the world, and notes on the distribution of families worldwide …

Earthworm systematics have been limited by the small number of taxonomically informative
morphological characters and high levels of homoplasy in this group. However, molecular …

Earthworm taxonomy has shown great instability across the twentieth century, as
exemplified by the numerous genera system of Lumbricidae. Sanger-sequenced “legacy …

The historical biogeography of the Lumbricidae, the main Palearctic earthworm family, may
be linked to the paleogeography of their putative ancestral range in Iberia–southeastern …

Scherotheca is a highly diverse genus of Lumbricidae Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1815, broadly
distributed from Northern Italy and Corsica Island to the Pyrenees and Northeastern Iberian …

The genus Aporrectodea includes some of the most conspicuous earthworm species, but its
taxonomic history is among the most complex within the family Lumbricidae. Molecular …

Molecular phylogenetics contributes to making important advances in the challenging field
of earthworm taxonomy. Use of this type of analysis has enabled clarification of the …

Since the 18th century, several taxonomists have contributed to knowledge of the French
earthworm fauna, one of the best-known earthworm communities in Europe, with 164 …

Abstract The Iberian Peninsula and the South of France are a centre of diversification of the
Lumbricidae family, which has many endemisms and basal genera in the phylogeny of …