Hidden treasures revealed: Catalogue of the Lumbricidae species in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Read full text
Authors: Tímea Szederjesi
Cited by: 0

Abstract

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Szederjesi, Tímea (2025): Hidden treasures revealed: Catalogue of the Lumbricidae species in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (Annelida: Oligochaeta). Zootaxa 5717 (1): 43-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5717.1.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5717.1.3AbstractThe revision of the Lumbricidae earthworm collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna revealed that the collection contains 70 currently valid species and subspecies belonging to 14 genera, and houses the type specimens of altogether 20 earthworm species, namely: Allolobophora molleri, Aporrectodea handlirschi, Cernosvitovia mehadiensis, C. opisthocystis, C. pannonica, C. rebeli, C. robusta, C. sturanyi sturanyi, Dendrobaena annectens, D. auriculata, D. cinerea, D. depressa, D. ganglbaueri, D. herculis, D. illyrica, D. meledaensis, D. succinta, Healyella syriaca, Octodrilus bretscheri and Oc. exacystis. This catalogue provides the first and comprehensive insight to the revised and updated lumbricid earthworm collection of the NHM Vienna. This knowledge may contribute clarifying future taxonomic and nomenclatural issues.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology Marine Biology and Ecology Research Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution

Publication details

Journal / source
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Publication date
19 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset