New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_6936 Variegated pink and white earthworm (Eodrilus annectens) an agile, fast moving earthworm that often sheds its tail while escaping - an adaptation to living alongside the earthworm eating snail (Powelliphanta patrickensis) perhaps. This is a common earthworm on the Denniston Plateau, and just one of more than twenty native earthworm species living in the so-called 'impoverished' soils of the coal measures.

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DSC_6936 Variegated pink and white earthworm (Eodrilus annectens) an agile, fast moving earthworm that often sheds its tail while escaping - an adaptation to living alongside the earthworm eating snail (Powelliphanta patrickensis) perhaps. This is a common earthworm on the Denniston Plateau, and just one of more than twenty native earthworm species living in the so-called 'impoverished' soils of the coal measures.

pink cream white variegated earthworm worm native DSC 6936 Eodrilus annectens Denniston Plateau impoverished soils coal measures