Csaba Csuzdi

• Biodiversity Journal, 5 (4): 505–508

  Csaba Csuzdi & Arnold Sciberras
  The first earthworm records from Malta (Oligochaeta Lumbricidae)

  ABSTRACT
  The first earthworm report from Malta lists seven species; six species from the Holarctic family Lumbricidae and one species from the Mediterranean family Hormogastridae. Apart from the Circum-Mediterranean Octodrilus complanatus (Dugès, 1828) and the Trans-Aegean Octodrilus transpadanus (Rosa, 1884) the other four lumbricid species recorded are widely distributed peregrine. The unidentified hormogastrid specimen might represent an autochthonous species in Malta.

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