History of this site. This website for Grania (Annelida, Clitellata, Enchytraeidae) of North America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean, established by Jan M. Locke, Kathryn A. Coates, and Jason Ritter in 1999 (see Locke and Coates 2000), was initially hosted at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. (BBSR). Recently, Ms. Locke, Drs. Coates and Brenda M. Healy, and I began more substantive collaboration on several projects focusing on the Enchytraeidae of North America and elsewhere in the World. Because I actively manage several websites associated with aquatic and terrestrial Annelida at the regional, North American, and global level, we decided that the Grania and other Enchytraeidae websites created and updated by Ms. Locke and Drs. Coates and Healy could more easily be maintained if also hosted here at the Illinois Natural History Survey. - - M.J. Wetzel

Locke, J.M., and K.A. Coates. 2000. An illustrated key to the species of Grania and Randidrilus (Annelida: Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) of eastern North America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean area. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113(3): 617-632.

Hyperlinks to sites located in this folder: [to be listed here soon; these will include titles with hyperlinks to each page associated with the Grania and other Enchytraeidae websites]