Eisenia muranyii Szederjesi & Csuzdi, 2015

Szederjesi, Tímea, 2023, Checklist of the earthworms of Albania (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae), Zootaxa 5255 (1), pp. 23-37 : 28-29

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:57336159-3CD5-4FC2-B42D-8370B39F6A0F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7746638
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F2311E-C434-8567-E4DE-F8D35E5DEEAC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eisenia muranyii Szederjesi & Csuzdi, 2015
status

Treatment

Eisenia muranyii Szederjesi & Csuzdi, 2015: 112 . Szederjesi 2017: 96.

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Distribution type: strict endemism only known from Albania (Szederjesi 2017).

Distribution in Albania: Shëngjergj ( Szederjesi & Csuzdi 2015).

New records: HNHM/15619 About HNHM 3 ex., Tirana, Shpella e Zezë , 03.08.2003, leg. T. Radja . HNHM/17590 About HNHM 7 ex., Tiranë district, Gropë Mts, Shëngjergj , forest brook along the road to Elbasan, E of the village, 1315 m, N41°19.800’ E20°08.739’, 07.07.2019, leg. Z. Fehér, T. Fehér, R. Lika, T. Szederjesi GoogleMaps . HNHM/17615 About HNHM 11 ex., Tiranë district, Pëllumbas, Shpella e Zezë / Pëllumbasit , 491 m, N41.25689° E19.96488°, 28.11.2019, leg. Z. Barina, G. Somogyi GoogleMaps , T. Szederjesi .

Known habitat in Albania: forest brook, cave.

Remark: The re-collection of the species in 2019 proved that E. muranyii , similarly to its Central European montane sister species Eisenia lucens (Waga, 1857) ( Szederjesi & Csuzdi 2015) , has the ability of bioluminescence.