Tritogeniidae Plisko, 2013

Misirlioğlu, Mete, Reynolds, John Warren, Stojanović, Mirjana, Trakić, Tanja, Sekulić, Jovana, James, Samuel W., Csuzdi, Csaba, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lapied, Emmanuel, Phillips, Helen R. P., Cameron, Erin K. & Brown, George G., 2023, Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution, Zootaxa 5255 (1), pp. 417-438 : 429

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D7A551D-646D-49E2-A9AA-A14EACC67777
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7747078
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scientific name	Tritogeniidae Plisko, 2013
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The family Tritogeniidae was erected by Plisko(2013) as part of important housekeeping duties within the Microchaetidae , and includes two genera, Michalakus with a single species and the others all belonging to Tritogenia . All 39 species are endemic to Southern Africa, with only one species newly described from Botswana ( Nxele et al. 2018).