Name - Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus 1758

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:8931 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Lumbricus terrestris

• Lumbricus terrestris L.

• Lumbricus terrestris (Linn.)

• Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus

• Lumbricus terrestris (Linnaeus)

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Recent Publications

• Opinion 1102. Completion of entry on Official List of Generic Names in Zoology relating to Lumbricus Linnaeus, 1758 (Annelida, Oligochaeta) (Name No. 213).
• DNA Barcoding Reveals Cryptic Diversity in Lumbricus terrestris L., 1758 (Clitellata): Resurrection of L. herculeus (Savigny, 1826).
• Restoration of London type of first earthworm - Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758 (Annelida: Ofigochaeta: Lumbricidae), and setting aside of a 'neo-neotype'.
• Earthworm (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) fauna from Pirin Macedonia (southwestern Bulgaria).
• First Records from Japan of European Vermi-composter Dendrobaena veneta (Rosa, 1886) and of 'Classical' Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758 (Annelida, Oligochaeta, Megadrilacea, Lumbricidae).

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758 1758: 647. [Index Animalium Entry]

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