Moniligaster Perrier, 1872

Narayanan, S. Prasanth, Ahmed, Shakoor & Thomas, A. P., 2025, Description of a new species of the earthworm genus Moniligaster Perrier, 1872 (Clitellata, Moniligastridae) from the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of Tamil Nadu State, India, Zootaxa 5589 (1), pp. 142-154 : 144

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.12
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:84299CDD-8C6D-413A-9E9D-3A6E9F5BC9F1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14896899
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scientific name	Moniligaster Perrier, 1872
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Genus Moniligaster Perrier, 1872 View in CoL

Type species. Moniligaster deshayesi Perrier, 1872 View in CoL

Distribution. Endemic to south-western India, in the Western Ghats mountain ranges, with one record from the Eastern Ghats ( Narayanan et al. 2023a, 2024c).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Annelida
Class	Clitellata
SuperOrder	Metagynophora
Order	Moniligastrida
Family	Moniligastridae

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