Abstract
IT is to be hoped that the publication of this admirable and remarkably cheap little book from the pen of an expert will lead zoologists to devote more attention than hitherto to this rather neglected section of the British fauna. Mr. Friend uses “Earthworms “in a wide sense, including in his account the three families (i.) Lumbricidse, containing eight genera and thirty-seven species, (ii.) Glossoscolecidae, with two genera and three species, (iii.) Megascolecidae, of which Microscolex phosphoreus is our sole representative. The illustra tions, “keys,” and tables of species in the several genera render the work of identification of specimens a comparatively easy task: while the book is so small and light that it can be carried in the pocket without inconvenience.
British Earthworms and How to Identify Them.
Hilderic
Friend
By. (How to Identify Series, No. 18.) Pp. 64. (London: The Epworth Press, n.d.) 1s. 6d. net.
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British Earthworms and How to Identify Them. Nature 113, 158 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113158d0
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