Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, <i>Lumbricus badensis</i> (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

<table>Photographs of adult individuals of the giant earthworm (<i>Lumbricus badensis</i>) (a) and a limbless reptile (<i>Anguis fragilis</i>), the "slow worm" (b), collected in the same habitat in the Black Forest (Schauinsland, Southern Germany, ca. 1200 m above sea level). Note that the worm and the reptile are about the same size. The heads of both animals point to the right side. Cl=Clitellum.</table>

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Figure 7: Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, <i>Lumbricus badensis</i> (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) 

Figure 7 | Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, Lumbricus badensis (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) 