The Diversity of Terrestrial Earthworm in Agricultural Land and Adjacent areas, Uttaradit Province, Thailand
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The diversity of terrestrial earthworms was studied in 4 sub-districts of Uttaradit Province namely; Numrid, Kungtapao, Pasao, and Hadkruad. The earthworms and soil samples were collected in 6 land types consisted of rice field, vegetable plantation, Crop plantation, Orchard, Grove, and Residential area. Results showed that 24 earthworm species in 5 families were founded. Pontoscolex corethrurus was the only one of the family GLOSSOSCOLECIDAE. We founded 15 species of the family MEGASCOLECIDAE, 3 species of the family MONILIGASTRIDAE, 4 species of the family OCTOCHAETIDAE, and 1 species of ALMIDAE. Of these, 10 were supposed to be new species. The most diversity of earthworm species was found in the Pasao sub-district (21 species). The highly abundant species were M. posthuma, M. peguana, and M. houlleti respectively. The population density of earthworms was significantly different in June and August; highly in vegetable plantation areas followed by residential areas respectively
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