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XV.—On Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, and on a new species of Limnodrilus with distinctive characters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

J. Stephenson
Affiliation:
Major, Indian Medical Service; Professor of Biology, Government College, Lahore.

Extract

On a recent occasion, looking into a small shallow pool near Lahore, I saw here and there on its bottom a reddish appearance, which a closer examination showed to be due to innumerable worms, implanted by one extremity in the mud, and waving their free ends in the water. These were the Limnodrilus described below. A quantity of the mud taken for further examination yielded, though in very much smaller numbers, three other Oligochætes, viz. Branchiura sowerbyi, Lahoria hortensis, and a species of Dero.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912

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