Oligochaeta

(Aquatic Earthworms)

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1976 Hand & Duplechin
1976 Harrel
1977 Kost
1978 Cover & Harrel
1978 Darville
1979 Bass
1979 Harman Loden Davis

1980 Darville & Harrel
1980 Davis SCD-RG
1980 Davis & Buzan
1981 Bass & Harrel
1982 Davis
1982 Davis MDCC
1982 Newberry

1983 Barclay
1985 Barclay & Harrel

1992 Bayer et al.

2004b Harrel

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

notes:

-First Texas Record reported by Harman, Loden & Davis (1979)

-probably a complex representing several species (Harman, Loden & Davis 1979)

-one of the most common freshwater naidids in North America (Hiltunen & Klemm 1980)

-found in sewage filter beds, ponds, lakes and streams and in brackish water (Davis 1982)