PPF: Giant Palouse Earthworm (Driloleirus americanus)
Aporrectodea trapezoides
, which is considered an introduced species.
Photo by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon/University of Idaho ??? 2005
The anterior, ventral view of the giant Palouse earthworm specimen collected by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon.
The scale is in centimeters.
Photo by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon/University of Idaho ??? 2005
Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon, Ph.D. candidate in Soil Science at UI, found the earthworm in the top 10cm of the soil on May 27, 2005 in Festuca-Symphoricarpos association vegetation.
Sanchez-de Leon found the wriggler in May while digging soil samples for her research
on the effects of earthworms on soil carbon dynamics of the Palouse grasslands.
She paused when her shovel unveiled part of the off-white body of the |
