Freshwater oligochaetes of India: A review
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The present review deals with freshwater oligochaetes of India which records the presence of 102 species of freshwater oligochaetes belonging to 17 genera and 4 families. Besides this, a brief description of their global and Indian distribution has also been made along with their ecology, morphology of typical oligochaetes methods of their collection and preparation for taxonomic study has also been given. A thorough survey of various states is needed for the distribution of oligochaetes systematically.
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Bretscher, K. (1899). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Oligochaeten fauna der Schweiz. Revue Suisse Zool. 6: 369-426.
Bretscher, K. (1900). Mitteilungen uber die Oligochaeten fauna der Schweiz. Revue Suisse Zool. 8: 1-44.
Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). Evolution in the Annelida. Can. J. Zool. 60 : 1043-1059.
Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 84. vi+ 259 pp.
Brinkhurst, R.O. and Jamieson, B. G. M. (1971). Aquatic Oligochaeta of the world. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburg, XI, 860 p.
Brinkhurst, R.O. and Wetzal, M. (1984). Aquatic Oligochaeta of the world : Supplement. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 44 : 1-101.
Claparede, E. R. (1862). Recherches sur I’anatomie d’oligochaetes; Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genev. 16: 217-291.
Dhillon, S. S., and Kaur, H. (1991-1996). Analytical studies on aquatic ecosystem of Punjab- Final Technical Report.
Ehrenburg, Ch.G. (1828). Symbolae pysicae- Animalia evertebrata. Decas 1. Phytozoa, Berolini, P. 1- 293.
Kalpana, K. and Naidu, K.V. (1979). Aulophorus flabelliger Stephenson, 1931, A rare and interesting freshwater oligochaete new to Asia. Hydrobiologia vol. 67: 273-274.
Lamarck, J. B. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebras. 3. Paris.
Michaelsen, W. (1900). Das Tierreich 10 : Vermes, Oligochaeta. Friedlander and Sohn, Berlin. Pp. xxix+ 575.
Muller, O. F. (1773). Vermium terrestrium et fluvitalium seu Infusoriorum Helminthicorum et Testaceorum non marinorum succincta historia. Helminthica. Havniae et Lipsiae ; 1-214.
Naidu, K. V. (1966). Check-list of Fresh-water Oligochaeta of the Indian sub-continent and Tibet. Hydrobiologia 27 : 208-226.
Naidu, K.V., Kalpana , K. and Suresh Kumar, K. (1979). Aquatic Oligochaeta from among the roots of Eichhornia crassipes Solms, Hydrobiologia. 76 : 103-112.
Naidu, K.V. and Naidu, K. A. (1979). Some freshwater Oligochaeta from Kashmir, India. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Vol. Part I. 6 : 411-419.
Naidu, K.V. and Naidu, K. (1979). Some aquatic Oligochaetes of the Nilgiris, South India. Hydrobiologia. 76 :113-118.
Oken, L. (1815). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte 3 : Zoologie 1 : Oligochaeta . Leipzig. 313-363.
Rani, R. (1975). “Survey of oligochaete Fauna of Punjab”. M.Sc. Disseration,(Supervisor V. C. Kapoor) Deptt. Of Zoology, PAU., Ludhiana.
Schmarda, L. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Tiere, Oligochaeta. Leipzig. 1 : 7-17, 54-56.
Sharma, M. (1993). “Taxonomic studies on the macrobenthos from Punjab waters, Ph.D. thesis ; (Supervisor : S. K. Battish) Deptt. Of Zoology, PAU., Ludhiana.
Stolc, A. (1888). Monographie ceskych Tubificida. Sker. K. Bohm. Ges. Wiss., VII. 2 : 1-43.
Sperber, C. (1948). A taxonomical study of the Naididae. Zool. Bidr. Uppsala. 28: 296.
Stephenson, J. (1930). The Oligochaeta. Oxford. xvi+978 p.
Vejdovsky, R. (1883). Revisio Oligochetorum Bohemiae. Sitz. Ber. Bohm. Ges. Wissensch. Prag. 1883: 215-228.
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Freshwater oligochaetes of India: A review. (2009). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 1(1), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v1i1.45
