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    Megascolecidae is a family of earthworms native to Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and North America. All species of the Megascolecidae belong...
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    families with large numbers of species are Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae and Moniligastridae. Earthworms are found in all parts of the world...
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  • large invertebrates in the class Clitellata, many being from the family Megascolecidae. It may refer to: Giant Gippsland earthworm, up to 3 m in length Spenceriella...
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    Amynthas agrestis (category Megascolecidae)
    agrestis, the Asian jumping worm, is a species of worm in the family Megascolecidae. It has a smooth, glossy, grey or brown body with a milky-white clitellum...
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    East, Central Asia to Japan Lutodrilidae – Louisiana the southeast USA Megascolecidae Microchaetidae – Terrestrial in Africa especially South African grasslands...
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  • Argilophilus is a genus of western North American earthworms of the family Megascolecidae that are characteristically found under native vegetation. The genus...
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  • layers of the intestine wall, whereas in some other families (e.g. Megascolecidae), it is an infolding of only the inner layer, and in many earthworms...
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  • "Diplocardia hulberti and D. rugosa, new earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Kansas". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington....
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    exploded in a supernova. 100,000 Native North American earthworms, such as Megascolecidae, will have naturally spread north through the United States Upper Midwest...
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    Amynthas (category Megascolecidae)
    Amynthas is a genus of earthworms in the family Megascolecidae. They are known as jumping worms, snake worms, or crazy worms because of their erratic thrashing...
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  • Amynthas japonicus (category Megascolecidae)
    Megascolecidae earthworm Amynthas japonicus is an extinct Japanese native probably collected from Nagasaki in the 1820s. It was one of three native earthworms...
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    Giant Gippsland earthworm (category Megascolecidae)
    Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Order: Opisthopora Family: Megascolecidae Genus: Megascolides Species: M. australis Binomial name Megascolides...
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    Pheretima darnleiensis (Fletcher, 1886) and other earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Mt Kinabalu, Borneo" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1613: 23–44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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    Pheretima (category Megascolecidae)
    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Order: Opisthopora Family: Megascolecidae Genus: Pheretima Kinberg, 1867 Species Many, see text...
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    Kinabalu giant earthworm (category Megascolecidae)
    Pheretima darnleiensis (Fletcher, 1886) and other earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Mt Kinabalu, Borneo" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1613: 23–44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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  • currently eight known families. Eudrilidae Glossoscolecidae Lumbricidae Megascolecidae Moniligastridae Ocnerodrilidae Octochaetidae "Opisthopora | Encyclopedia...
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    This is a list of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650...
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  • Amynthas tokioensis (category Megascolecidae)
    tokioensis, the Asian jumping worm, is a species of earthworm in the family Megascolecidae. It is native to Japan and the Korean Peninsula. It is an invasive species...
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    Pheretima darnleiensis (Fletcher, 1886) and other earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Mt Kinabalu, Borneo" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1613 (1): 23–44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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    Amynthas mekongianus (category Megascolecidae)
    as Megascolex mekongianus, is a species of earthworm in the family Megascolecidae. It is native to the vicinity of the River Mekong in southeastern Asia...
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    Megascolides (category Megascolecidae)
    Megascolides is a genus of earthworms in the family Megascolecidae. There are about 40 species: Megascolides albus Lee, 1952 Megascolides attenuatus Spencer...
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    the "true" earthworms in families Acanthodrilidae, Octochaetidae and Megascolecidae.[citation needed] The latter includes the world's largest earthworm...
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    Metaphire is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Megascolecidae. The species of this genus are found in south-eastern Asia. The following species...
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  • Oregon giant earthworm (category Megascolecidae)
    Frank (1937). "New North American species of earthworms of the family Megascolecidae". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 84 (3009): 157–181...
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  • Anisochaeta gigantea (category Megascolecidae)
    called the North Auckland worm, is a rare giant annelid of the family Megascolecidae, endemic to New Zealand. The North Auckland worm is New Zealand's largest...
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    Lake Pedder earthworm (category Megascolecidae)
    (Hypolimnus pedderensis) is an extinct earthworm species in the family Megascolecidae. Its genus Hypolimnus is monotypic. It was endemic to the Lake Pedder...
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  • is also typical of Ocnerodrilidae. Eudrilids differ from the family Megascolecidae and Acanthodrilidae in having euprostates, i.e., a muscular and possibly...
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  • Giant Palouse earthworm (category Megascolecidae)
    Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Order: Opisthopora Family: Megascolecidae Genus: Driloleirus Species: D. americanus Binomial name Driloleirus...
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    This is a list of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about...
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  • Pontodrilus is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Megascolecidae. Species: Pontodrilus bermudensis Beddard, 1891 Pontodrilus ephippiger Rosa,...
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