The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Oligochaeta

(Aquatic Earthworms)

SPARGANOPHILIDAE

Sparganophilus tamesis Benham

 

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Distribution Citations

1982 Davis

1992 Bayer et al.

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

notes:

-First Texas Record reported by Davis (1982)

-locally abundant in submerged mud or gravel at margins of swamps, lakes and streams and favors habitats with organic substrates (Davis 1982)

-Davis (1982) collected species from intermittent turbid stream on silty gravel substrates

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