Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758

Mcgee, Joseph M., Carrera-Martínez, Roberto, Callaham Jr, Mac A. & Snyder, Bruce A., 2024, New records of earthworms (Clitellata: Oligochaeta) from Georgia, USA, including eight new state records, Zootaxa 5437 (4), pp. 510-522 : 513

Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758

Murray Co.: (4) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 51’ 59” N, 84° 38’ 38” W, Rough Ridge fire, Unburned Plot 4, litter, hand coll., 5 Oct 2017, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al.; (1) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 51’ 59” N, 84° 38’ 38” W, Rough Ridge fire, Unburned Plot 2, soil monolith, 25 Jun 2018, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al.; (1) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 51’ 59” N, 84° 38’ 38” W, Rough Ridge fire, Unburned Plot 3, litter, hand collection, 13 Apr 2018, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al.

Previously recorded: Banks, Bibb, Clarke, Monroe. This European species is globally distributed ( Gates 1972; Sims & Gerard 1999).

Remarks. These records of Lumbricus terrestris were from a study on the effects of large wildfires. Interestingly, L. terrestris was only found in the unburned plots (see Discussion)