Woodland White Worm
Octolasion tyrtaeum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826)
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Annelida |
| Class | Clitellata |
| Order | Crassiclitellata |
| Family | Lumbricidae |
| Genus | Octolasion |
| Species | Octolasion tyrtaeum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826) |
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
How to cite this account
Octolasion tyrtaeum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2726. https://cavebiology.org/species/octolasion-tyrtaeum/ (accessed 7 September 2026).
Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.
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