“…In Brazil, knowledge about limnic oligochaetes was pioneered by the taxonomic studies of the husband-wife team Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus and Ernest Marcus starting in 1934, and by Gilberto Righi at the end of the 1960s. Subsequently (as of 2000), works about ecology such as Alves & Lucca (2000), Alves et al (2006Alves et al ( , 2008, Gorni & Alves (2006, 2008a, Behrend et al (2009Behrend et al ( , 2012, , , , Gorni et al (2015), Oda et al (2015), Petsch et al (2015) and Rodrigues et al ( , 2016, and on aspects of the reproductive biology by Lobo & Alves (2011a,b), have contributed to the knowledge of these invertebrates in Brazil.…”