TY -JOUR
AU -Robert J. Blakemore
AU -Chih-Han Chang
AU -Shu-Chun Chuang
AU -Masamichi T. Ito
AU -Sam James and Jiun-Hong Chen
TI -Biodiversity of Earthworms in Taiwan: a Species Checklist with
the Confirmation and New Records of the Exotic Lumbricids
Eisenia fetida and Eiseniella tetraedra
PY -2006
DA -0000-00-00
JO -Taiwania
VL -51
IS -3
SP -226
EP -236
UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/507
AB -Terrestrial megadrile earthworms variously reported from Taiwan including Lanyu
Island (Botel Tobago) number approximately 70 species with 29 of these, or 40%, non-natives for
which 69% are Asiatic Megascolecidae and 21% are Lumbricidae of Holarctic origin. An additional
27 unnamed species have been identified from Ilan county north-eastern Taiwan by Chen et al. (2003)
that, if published, would bring the total to around 100 known species. The checklist is also provided
with the confirmation and new records of the exotic lumbricids Eisenia fetida (Savigny) and Eiseniella
tetraedra (Savigny).
DO -10.6165/tai.2006.51(3).226