Eudriloides Michaelsen, 1890

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2010, Megadrile earthworm taxa introduced to South African soils (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Ocnerodrilidae), African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 289-289 : 293

Genus Eudriloides Michaelsen, 1890

Eudriloides durbanensis Beddard, 1893: 696

Sent from Durban, KZN, RSA in a box of plants to Kew Gardens, UK, and after description deposited in the BMNH; present housing of type material unknown (Blakemore 2006 a; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 65). Michaelsen (1913 b) repeated after Beddard that the species is endemic in Durban, although in his following paper (Michaelsen 1914) expressed uncertainty on its endemicity, supposing its earlier introduction. The species redescription by Zicsi (1997 a) on the material collected in Margate ( KZN) from garden soil confirms the species’ occurrence in RSA. Its endemic status, however, is not confirmed for this country. In Tanzania, where it was also collected in garden soil or cultivated land, it is supposedly also introduced .