Aporrectodea caliginosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Class
- Clitellata
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Lumbricidae
- Genus
- Aporrectodea
- Species
- Aporrectodea caliginosa
- Scientific Name
- Aporrectodea caliginosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aporrectodea caliginosa
Aporrectodea caliginosa (also known as Allolobophora similis or the grey worm) is an earthworm commonly found in Great Britain. It is recognizable by the three distinct shades of colour at its front end, and it is 6 centimetres (2.4 in) in length when not moving. Its saddle pads usually form a two humped ridge across three segments along the length of the saddle, however this is not clearly visible. The worm mostly lies in non-permanent horizontal burrows in topsoil, and is rarely found in leaf litter. Like most worms, its diet consists only of soil.
...Aporrectodea caliginosa in languages:
- Bokmål
- gråmeitemark
- Chinese
- 暗色阿波蚓
- Czech
- žížala temná
- Danish
- Grå Orm
- Dutch
- Gewone grauwworm
- English
- common earthworm
- English
- Grey Worm
- Finnish
- peltoliero
- German
- Kleiner Wiesenwurm
- Lithuanian
- Dirvinis sliekas
- Swedish
- åkerdaggmask
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aporrectodea caliginosa
- Aporrectodea cupulifera
- Aporrectodea dubiosa
- Aporrectodea georgii
- Aporrectodea giardi
- Aporrectodea handlirschi
- Aporrectodea icterica
- Aporrectodea jassyensis
- Aporrectodea limicola
- Aporrectodea longa
- Aporrectodea rosea
- Aporrectodea smaragdina
- Aporrectodea trapezoides
- Aporrectodea tuberculata






























































































































































