Description of the first endemic earthworm species from Cyprus (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Tímea Szederjesi; Tomás Pavlíček; Csaba Csuzdi

doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1182778

Description of the first endemic earthworm species from Cyprus (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

Tímea Szederjesi, Tomás Pavlíček, Csaba Csuzdi

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Abstract

New earthworm samples from Cyprus are assessed and discussed. A re-evaluation of specimens previously relegated to the Southern Alpine species Perelia nematogena (Rosa, 1903), revealed two independent species: Perelia phoebea (Cognetti, 1913) ,described originally from Rhodes Island, (Greece) and an undescribed species Perelia makrisi sp. n. The new species is similar also to the Levantine Pe. galileana Csuzdi & Pavlíček, 2005 and corroborates the hypotheses that the autochthonous earthworm fauna of Cyprus is of Levantine origin. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FD1996DC-2FFC-42D5-A1D2-005B50E6FC64

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	158-163
Number of pages	6
Journal	Zoology in the Middle East
Volume	62
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2016.1182778
State	Published - 2 Apr 2016

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Keywords

Cyprus
Earthworms
Messinian period
endemism
new species
the Levant

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