Kazimierzidae Nxele & Plisko 2016

Kazimierzidae Nxele & Plisko, 2016 This recently erected family of earthworms, which includes 25 nominal species all in the single genus Kazimierzus, is restricted to the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces, including the Namaqualand areas, along the Atlantic region of South Africa. This is a hotspot of biodiversity (Myers et al. 2000), with considerable topographical and botanic diversity, which will probably still lead to the discovery of new earthworm species, as observed by Nxele et al. (2017).
Published as part of Misirlioğlu, Mete, Reynolds, John Warren, Stojanović, Mirjana, Trakić, Tanja, Sekulić, Jovana, James, Samuel W., Csuzdi, Csaba, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lapied, Emmanuel, Phillips, Helen R. P., Cameron, Erin K. & Brown, George G., 2023, Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution, pp. 417-438 in Zootaxa 5255 (1) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33, http://zenodo.org/record/7745110
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