Oligochaeta

(Aquatic Earthworms)

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1978 Cover & Harrel
1979 McCauley

1980 Davis & Buzan
1982 Davis

1992 Bayer et al.
1998 Moring Rosendale
         Ansley Brown

2002 Moring

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-First Texas record reported by Davis (1982)

-species closely resembles N. variabilis and is often difficult to distinguish (Hiltunen & Klemm 1980)

-occurs in littoral zones of lakes , in sand, muddy sand or sandy gravel and in clean to slightly polluted reaches of lowland rivers (Dumnicka 1978 in Davis 1982)