The Enchytraeid fauna of North Africa |
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Authors: | Emilia Rota Brenda Healy |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Zoology, University College, Belfield, Stillorgan Road, Dublin 4, Ireland;(2) Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva, Via Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy |
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Abstract: | As part of a survey of the Mediterranean enchytraeids, large numbers of samples were collected from a wide range of habitats at 38 localities of Tunisia and Algeria in 1989. Twenty species were identified belonging to six genera. Five species are new records for Tunisia and 17 are new for Algeria. Most of the recorded species are widely distributed throughout Europe, or even cosmopolitan, but some have a more restricted range. Fridericia caprensis has a circummediterranean distribution, Fridericia sardorum seems to be endemic to the western Mediterranean and Fridericia berninii is known only from the Balearic Islands and Algeria. Enchytraeus minutus bisetosus n. ssp. is described. A critical revision of some species is also provided. |
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Keywords: | Enchytraeidae taxonomy distribution North Africa |
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