Soil macrofauna of the south of Kunashir Island (Kuril Islands, Russia)

Gongalsky, Konstantin B.; Kuznetsova, D. M.; Elagin, Alexey; Malyavin, S. A.; Zaitsev, Andrei S.

doi:10.1134/s001249661404005x

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“…Our results indicate that the earthworms of the Southern Kurils are mostly of recent invasive origin, and the native earthworm fauna of the Southern Kurils failed to survive the Last Glacial Period (with the only possible exception of E. japonica). A similar pattern was observed for terrestrial isopods, which find suitable habitats across both islands but do not host any indigenous species (Gongalsky et al, 2014). All terrestrial isopods were either the cosmopolitan Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804 or amphibiotic species occurring on the littoral zone of the islands.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…1, table 1). A part of the material from the south of Kunashir (13 individuals) was taken from the study of Gongalsky et al, 2014). Taxonomic nomenclature follows Blakemore, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Southern Kurils is an archipelago located to the north of Hokkaido. There are several studies on the earthworm fauna of Southern Kurils (Perel, 1979;Marusik, 2002;Gongalsky et al, 2014). Six earthworm species and subspecies were reported: Metaphire hilgendorfi (Michaelsen, 1982) (= Pheretima hilgendorfi = Amynthas hilgendorfi), Eisenia japonica (Michaelsen, 1892), Lumbricus rubellus Hoffmeister, 1843, Dendrobaena octaedra (Savigny, 1826), Dendrodrilus rubidus tenuis (Eisen, 1874), and Allolobophora parva (Eisen, 1874).…”

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Identifying earthworms (Oligochaeta, Megadrili) of the Southern Kuril Islands using DNA barcodes

Shekhovtsov¹,

Sundukov²,

Blakemore³

et al. 2018

Anim. Biodiv. Conserv.

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Identifying earthworms (Oligochaeta, Megadrili) of the Southern Kuril Islands using DNA barcodes. The Kuril Islands are a volcanic archipelago located between Hokkaido and Kamchatka. In this study we investigated earthworm fauna of three of the Southern Kuril Islands, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Yuri, using both morphological analysis and DNA barcoding. Our results highlight the potential of DNA barcoding for studying earthworm fauna: while previous studies reported only six earthworm species and subspecies on the Southern Kurils, we detected 15 genetic clusters. Six of them correspond to European cosmopolites; six, to Asian species; and three, to unidentified species. While no European earthworms were found on Yuri that is uninhabited since WWII, they dominated on larger and inhabited Kunashir and Shikotan, suggesting that they are recent invaders. Of the six Asian species, five had cox1 sequences identical or very closely related to published sequences from the mainland or the Japanese islands and thus are recent invaders.

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confidence: 67%

“…1, table 1). A part of the material from the south of Kunashir (13 individuals) was taken from the study of Gongalsky et al, 2014). Taxonomic nomenclature follows Blakemore, 2003).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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