Sparganophilidae Michaelsen, 1918

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 : 428

Sparganophilidae Michaelsen, 1918

This family native to North America has only one genus ( Sparganophilus ), with 12 species and 2 subspecies ( Reynolds 1980, 2008). At least one species, Sparganophilus tamesis Benham ( Sparganophilus eiseni Smith , is a junior synonym of S. tamesis ; see Rota et al. 2016), is cosmopolitan, and found mainly in limicole habitats, throughout the USA (within and outside of its native range), Mexico ( Ikeda et al. 2020), Canada (Reynolds 2022) and in several European countries including Germany, France, England, Switzerland, Italy and Spain ( Rota et al. 2018a; Bouché & Qiu 1998).