Preliminary survey of freshwater Oligochaeta from selected districts in Tamil Nadu (India)
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Sivabalan Srinivasan
Abstract
A qualitative survey of freshwater Oligochaeta was conducted in selected districts of Tamil Nadu, India, from October 2013 to June 2015. Thirteen taxa were recorded from a total of 1,915 specimens of freshwater Oligochaeta examined from various random samples. Out of the 13 taxa 10 were identified to the species level, two were identified to genus level and one only to subfamily level. These provided the first reports of Aulophorus furcatus, Dero digitata, D. zeylanica (Naididae) and Pristina breviseta (Pristinidae) for Villupuram, Bothrioneurum sp. (Tubificidae) for Nilagiri, and D. digitata and D. zeylanica for Thiruvannamalai districts. The Dero sp. recorded from Villupuram with four hair and four needle chaetae is uniquely difierent from the rest of the genus so far reported. The tubificid Limnodrilus hofimeisteri was the most common and abundant and the only species found in the aquaria. Among the naidids, D. dorsalis was the most abundant species collected from Neithavayal pond (Minjur, Thiruvallur district).
The paper was presented at the 13th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, Brno, Czech Republic, 7–11 September, 2015
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Dr. Tarmo Timm, Senior Researcher, Estonian University of Life Sciences, for his guidance and valuable suggestions. We are grateful to Dr. Pilar Rodriguez for her timely help. We are grateful to Dr. Jana Schenková, Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, 13th ISAO 2015, Mr. Mark. J. Wetzel, General Secretary, ISAO, Dr. Patrick Martin and Dr. Christer Erséus for their support and help. We are grateful to the Management, Principal and Head, Department of Zoology, The New College, Chennai for providing necessary facilities to carry out this work.
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