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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

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Giuliano Bonomi and Christer Erseus; A taxonomic and faunistic survey of the marine Tubificidae and Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) of Italy. Introduction and preliminary results. Hydrobiologia 115:207-210, 1984

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On the basis of material collected along the Ligurian, Tyrrhenian, Ionic and Adriatic coasts of Italy, a tentative list of 26 species (18 tubificids, 8 enchytraeids) of marine Oligochaeta is presented. Most of the species are new to science, and it can therefore be concluded that there is a very high diversity of oligochaetes in the Mediterranean Sea.