Woodland White Worm
Octolasion tyrtaeum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 10 counties across six states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

Counties

Alabama

DeKalb, Jackson

Georgia

Dade

Illinois

Hardin

North Carolina

Macon

Tennessee

Blount, Fentress, Montgomery, Van Buren

Virginia

Bath

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

National ranks

Canada

NNA

United States

NNA

Subnational ranks

New Brunswick

SNA Not Applicable

Manitoba

SNA Not Applicable

Alberta

SNA Not Applicable

Quebec

SNA Not Applicable

Nova Scotia

SNA Not Applicable

British Columbia

SNA Not Applicable

Indiana

SNA Not Applicable

Montana

SNA Not Applicable

Georgia

SNA Not Applicable

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
• Peck, S.B. & Lewis, J.J. 1978. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean invertebrate faunas of Illinois and southeastern Missouri. National Speleological Society Bulletin 40: 39–63.
• Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
• Reeves, W.K. & Reynolds, J.W. 1999. New records of cave-dwelling earthworms (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae and Naididae) and other annelids (Aeolosomatida, Branchiobdellida and Hirudinea) in the southeastern United States, with notes on their ecology. Megadrilogica 7: 65–71.
• Reeves, W.K. 2000. Invertebrate cavernicoles of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 116: 334–343. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24335885.
• Reynolds, J.W. 1994. Earthworms of Alabama (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Ocnerodrilidae and Sparganophilidae). Megadrilogica 6: 35–46.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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