Tumakidae Righi 1995

Tumakidae Righi, 1995 The monogeneric Tumakidae family has only three known species, Tumak hammeni Righi, Tumak amari Celis & Rangel-Ch., and Tumak congorum Celis & Rangel-Ch., found in relatively drier, lower-elevation forests in Central Colombia and the Caribbean region, along the Magdalena River valley (Righi 1995; Celis & Rangel-Ch. 2015). Given the relatively small amount of remaining forest fragments of its native habitat in Colombia, due primarily to agricultural expansion and pastures for cattle, further efforts are needed to ensure adequate conservation of the few species known. Additional sampling efforts are also needed to discover if there are any other species present along its potential distribution range.
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 429, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33, http://zenodo.org/record/7745110
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