North American Bark Earthworm

Bimastos parvus

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
North American Bark Earthworm
Scientific Name: 
Bimastos parvus
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Annelid (Earthworm)
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Annelida
Class: 
Clitellata
Order: 
Opistohopora (Crassiclitellata)
Family: 
Lumbricidae
Distribution

Number of Occurrences

1 (Prelude Lake Boat launch 2017) see also Berman, D.I and Marusik, Y.M. 1994. On Bimastos parvus (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) from Yukon Territory (Canada), with discussion of distribution of the earthworms in northwestern North America and northeastern Siberia. Magedrilogica. pp. 113-116.
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
Status Rank Description: 
new in 2017 - origin unknown (P Catling collection); changed from Alien to Undetermined based on Csuzdi C, Chang CH, Pavlícek T, Szederjesi T, Esopi D, et al. (2017) Molecular phylogeny and systematics of native North American lumbricid earthworms (Clitellata: Megadrili). PLOS ONE 12(8): e0181504. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181504.
S Rank: 
SU
Last Updated: 
April 30, 2021

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