A Survey of the Earthworms of the Greater and Lesser Antilles

蚯蚓有希望成为 由于它们明显未能穿过盐层， 水 不幸的是，我们对地球上的蚯蚓知之甚少。 加勒比海盆地，他们不能用来测试任何 地理学假说。 该项目旨在通过以下方式部分纠正这一缺陷： 对大安的列斯群岛进行全面调查， 小安的列斯群岛 三角形属和中央属 美国和安的列斯群岛的Notiodrilus将根据 收藏要做。 调查所得数据将用于 为了验证蚯蚓没有分散到 小安的列斯群岛南部的火山区。 该项目将提供 开始研究大型 加勒比海盆地理地质问题 历史，以及重要的物种保护和 生态问题。

Earthworms show promise of being excellent indicators of vicariance events, due to their apparent failure to cross salt water. Unfortunately, so little is known about earthworms in the Caribbean Basin that they cannot be used to test any biogeographical hypotheses. This project aims to partially correct that deficiency by conducting a complete survey of the Greater Antilles and some of the Lesser Antilles. The Trigaster group of genera and the Central American and Antillean Notiodrilus will be revised based on the collections to be made. Data derived from the survey will be used to test the hypothesis that earthworms have not dispersed to the volcanic southern Lesser Antilles. This project will provide the distributional and taxonomic data necessary to begin work on larger biogeographical and geological questions about Caribbean Basin history, as well as on important species conservation and ecological concerns.