Lumbriculus variegatus ( Mueler , 1774)

Baturina, Maria A., Kaygorodova, Irina A. & Loskutova, Olga A., 2020, New data on species diversity of Annelida (Oligochaeta, Hirudinea) in the Kharbey lakes system, Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Russia), ZooKeys 910, pp. 43-78 : 43

49. Lumbriculus variegatus ( Mueler, 1774)

Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774

Lumbriculus kareliensis Popchenko, 1976

Geographic distribution.

Holarctic species. In tundra zone of Russia: Murmansk Region ( Stalmakova 1974; Finogenova 1975; Veselov 1977; Timm and Popchenko 1978), Vaygach Island ( Leshko et al 2008), the Pechora River delta ( Baturina 2018), Lake Ambarty and some other lakes in the Korotaikha River basin ( Popchenko 1978), lakes in the Kara River, Malaya and Bolshaya Usa Rivers basins ( Baturina et al. 2014b), the Vashutkiny lakes system ( Finogenova 1966), Lake Bolshoy Ngosovey and lakes in the More-yu River basin ( Baturina and Loskutova 2010), the Gydansky and Yamal Peninsula ( Stepanov 2016, 2017, 2018), northern part of Western Siberia ( Zaloznyj 1984), the Yenisey River delta ( Chekanovskaya 1956), and the Anadyr River basin ( Morev 1983b).

Location.

Lake Bolshoy Kharbey (67°34'N, 62°57'E; 67°34'34.3"N, 62°52'17.4"E; 67°34'3.5"N, 62°52'17.9"E; 67°32'44.2"N, 62°55'22.3"E; 67°32'50"N, 62°52'26.3"E; 67°31'38"N, 62°53'2.8"E); Lake D1 (67°36'2.2"N, 62°54'8.2"E; 67°35'52.8"N, 62°53'52.6"E); Lake L (67°35'41.5"N, 62°49'34.7"E); Lake K2 (67°32'40.9"N, 62°51'39.1"E); Lake Golovka (67°36'21.2"N, 62°56'6.6"E, 67°36'9.1"N, 62°55'50.6"E); temporary pond (67°58"N, 62°34'60"E).

Ecology.

The species was observed in most lakes of the area; L. variegatus often numerically dominated, inhabiting sands or silts between stones, submerged macrophytes, and stones with moss or algal covering (at depth up to 1 m).