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  Suborder Lumbricina

Family Almidae

Taxon Information

The Family Almidae is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Almidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian; 41 species in 7 genera worldwide, 1 Nearctic species] (Martin et al., 2008).

Bibliography

• Martin, P., E. Martinez-Ansemil, A. Pinder, T. Timm & M.J. Wetzel. 2008. Global diversity of oligochaetous clitellates (”Oligochaeta”; Clitellata) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 117-127. [Available online]