Oligochaeta

(Aquatic Earthworms)

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1973 Harman
1977 Kost
1978 Cover & Harrel
1978 Darville
1979 Harman Loden Davis

1980 Darville & Harrel
1982 Davis
1982 Davis MDCC
1982 Howard
1983 Barclay
1985 Barclay & Harrel

1992 Bayer et al.

2002 Celik
2004b Harrel

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

notes:

-First Texas Record reported by Harman (1973)

-reported from lotic waters and turbid, not stratifying lentic waters up to 1.2 M deep (Harman 1965 in Davis 1982) and in mostly clean flowing waters with sand, gravel or cobble beds among macrophytes and filamentous algae (Davis 1982)

-relatively intolerant of organicf pollution (Davis 1982)