Abstract
A survey work was conducted in Satkoshia-Baisapalli Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha, India, where altogether 10 earthworm species were collected. Out of these, four species—Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1856), Metaphire houlleti (Perrier, 1872), Perionyx bainii Stephenson, 1915, Perionyx barotensis Julka & Paliwal 1993—are reported for the first time after the original description and is proved to be a new record for the state of Odisha.
Highlights
Extensive areas in Indian forest reserves are still unexplored and have never been sampled for earthworms
New locations should be sampled, which represents a great challenge, since there are few researchers working in this area. With this view Satkoshia-Baisapalli Wildlife Sanctuaries in Odisha, India were selected for earthworm faunal survey (Image 1)
The first record of earthworms from Odisha was published by Michaelsen (1910)
Summary
Extensive areas in Indian forest reserves are still unexplored and have never been sampled for earthworms. New locations should be sampled, which represents a great challenge, since there are few researchers working in this area. With this view Satkoshia-Baisapalli Wildlife Sanctuaries in Odisha, India were selected for earthworm faunal survey (Image 1). These twin reserves are the meeting point of two bio-geographic regions of India, the Deccan peninsula and the Eastern Ghats, contributing immense earthworm diversity in that area. The work was followed by Stephenson and he described several species (1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1923, 1926). The aim of the present paper is to report on these collections, including four new records from Odisha (Fig. 1)
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