Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758

Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL

Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758: 647 View in CoL .

Lumbricus americanus Perrier, 1872: 44 View in CoL .

Further synonyms in Blakemore (2012).

Type Locality: Uppsala (59.8586°N, 17.6389°E), Sweden (Blakemore 2013c, 2014) GoogleMaps .

Type specimen: Neotype-BMNH 1973:1:1 (Sims 1973; Blakemore 2013, 2014)

Distribution in Nepal: Bagmati Province, Kathmandu District, Chandragiri, and Tokha Municipalities ( Singh 2022).

Distribution elsewhere: Albania, Africa, America, Austria, Australia, Azores, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Montenegro, Norway, Turkey ( Gates 1972; Blakemore 2012, 2014; Mısırlıoğlu et al. 2016; Makin et al. 2014; Blakemore et al. 2022; Reynolds 2022). More distribution mentioned in Narayanan et al. 2023.

Habitat: Conifer and deciduous forest, residential lawn (McCay & Skull 2019); crop field and pastureland ( Singh 2022).

Ecology: Anecic (McCay & Skull 2019).

Remarks: Basionym-Latin in origin, ‘terrestris’ means ‘pertaining to earth or land or terrestrial in appearance.’ Needs further confirmation of distribution in other region of Nepal and its status.