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Wilfried Schonborn; [Untersuchungen uber die Ernahrung bodenbewohnender Testaceen]. Pedobiologia 5:205-210, 1965

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Lignin-containing particles of more or less humified litter material have been detected in the nutritive vacuoles of soil-inhabiting Testacea. It proved possible to culture some of these Testacea in sterile soils from beech and pine woods and thus to prove that the soil-inhabiting Testacea can use litter directly as nourishment and can contribute directly to humus formation.