• Journal of Species Research
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.80-91
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• 2018

The following seven species of soil enchytraeids belonging to five genera were collected from Korea: Enchytraeus buchholzi $Vejdovsk{\acute{y}}$, 1878, Enchytraeus irregularis Nielsen & Christensen, 1961, Fridericia bulboides Nielsen & Christensen, 1959, Hemifridericia parva Nielsen & Christensen, 1959, Henlea perpusilla Friend, 1911, Henlea ventriculosa (Udekem, 1854), and Marionina argentea Michaelsen, 1889 sensu lato. Species were found in soil and litter layers of sites investigated in 2007, 2008 and 2014. Diagnoses or descriptions for these species are provided here with new micrographs or drawings.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.541-546
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• 2016

Enchytraeidae is one of the largest groups in Clitellata. They are commonly found in soil and aquatic environments and play important roles in these ecosystems. It is not easy to study enchytraeid clitellates because of difficulty in distinguishing morphologies between closely related species. In Korea, 29 species have been reported in this family. Of these, 27 species are terrestrial and only two species are aquatic. Here, we report three aquatic enchytraeid species new to Korea: Fridericia glandifera Friend, 1913, Henlea montana Rota, 1994 and Marionina brendae Bretscher, 1899.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.279-288
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• 2016

Aquatic oligochaete plays an important role in freshwater ecosystem. These worms, therefore, have already been extensively studied around the world. But compared to other countries with East Asia, only 48 species of aquatic oligochaetes have been recorded in Korea. This is because taxonomic study of aquatic oligochaete is in just beginning stages. Our specimens of this study had been collected from eighteen locations in Korean peninsula. Analyzing them we identified twenty unrecorded species including one species of aelosomatid: Paranais orientalis, Pristina breviseta, P. notopora, P. foreli, P. synclites, Bratislavia prosetosa, Allonais gwaliorensis, Aulodrilus pluriseta, Limnodrilus neotropicus, L. maumeensis, L. amblysetus, Tubifex ignotus, Potamothrix cf. bedoti, P. bavaricus, Peipsidrilus cf. pusillus, Psammoryctides albicola, Varichaetadrilus vestibulatus, Tasserkidrilus cf. acapillatus, Propappus volki, Aeolosoma japonicum.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.127-144
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• 2013

An earthworm survey of Busan metropolitan area unearthed a dozen taxa in four families (including Enchytraeidae). Members of mostly common, cosmopolitan earthworm species-complexes were: Drawida cf. koreana Kobayashi, 1938, Amynthas cf. corticis (Kinberg, 1867), Aporrectodea trapezoides (Dug$\grave{e}$s, 1828) and Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826). Also found were Amynthas hupeiensis (Michaelsen, 1895), A. masatakae (Beddard, 1892) and Metaphire ryunome Blakemore, 2012 - the latter a new Korean record. New taxa are: moniligastrid Drawida songae yeongdo subsp. n.; megascolecid Amynthas carnosus roki subsp. n. which is compared to nominal taxon A. carnosus (Goto and Hatai, 1899) from Japan, to A. carnosus monstriferus (Kobayashi, 1936) stat. n. from Korea and to A. lichuanensis Wang and Qiu, 2005 stat. n. from China; plus lumbricid Eisenia japonica vaga subsp. n. deemed an objectively-based molecular taxon on its unique DNA COI gene barcode. Restoration of Eisenia xanthurus (Templeton, 1836) for E. andrei is mooted (in Appendix).

• 한국토양동물학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2000

영국의 고원지대 (Moorland)의 이탄토양 (blanket bog peat soil에 서식하는 애지렁이 정량조사를 위한 수분갈때기추출법의 효율에 미치는 수온, 물의 량, 추출시간의 복합적인 효과를 조사하였다. 이탄 토양에서 애지렁이 추출을 위한 최적조건은 물의 양과 초기 수온에 관계없이 표면수의 최종 온도는 35$^{\circ}C$이고, 추출시간은 6시간이었다. O'Connor의 방법 (최종 온도 40-45$^{\circ}C$,열의 점진적인 증가, 3시간 추출)은 비교적 늪은 온도와 짧은 추출시간으로 인해, 추출효율에 변이가 심하였다. 열을 가하지 않고 장시간 추출하는 방식은 열을 가하는 방식에 비해 추출효율이 현저히 낮았다.

• 한국토양동물학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.83-91
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• 1997

One year study with litter bags(mesh size - 0.4mm, 0.8mm, 1.7mm and 5.0mm) was carried out to investigate the soil invertebrate community in the process of leaf decomposition in Namsan and Kwangreung deciduous forests, which were considered to be under different degrees of environmental selective pressure. Soil animals collected from litter bags were classified into the class of order or higher taxa. Acari and Collembola were major groups: Acari and Collembola were about 60% and 30% of total soil animals in their numbers, respectively. Among minor groups, Dipteria, Araneae, Diplopoda, Coleoptera and Chilopoda were comparatively dominant. In Namsan forest which was considered to be under higher environmental selective pressure than Kwangreung, the densities of Acari and Collembola were somewhat higher than in Kwangreung, although there was no statistically significant difference between two sites. The densities of Chilopoda, Enchytraeidae and Nematoda were much higher in Namsan than in Kwangreung but Diplopoda and Symphyla were much more in Kwangreung. It was expected that those groups could be used as bioindicators. The densities of Acari and Collembola were very low until March and then showed the peak in May. But they decreased slowly until November. There was no significant difference among the mesh sized of litter bags in the densities of Acari and Collembola but other groups of soil invertebrates seemed to be prevented from immigrating into the litter bag of mesh size 0.4mm. Decomposition rate of litter in the litter bag was low in early stage of decomposition. The % residual mass over initial mass at 8 months after litter bag introduction in the field was over 80%. Thereafter, % residual mass decreased more fast and was about 60% at 1 year after bag introduction. There was little evidence for the effects of soil invertebrates upon the litter decomposition in the period of this study. And there was no significant difference between Namsan and Kwangreung or among mesh sizes of litter bags in the decomposition rate.