Invertebrate of significant Case study

Point of view

Taxonomic Classification

Species: Amynthas agrestic 890_tiny_earthworms

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Subclass: Oligochaeta
Order: Haplotaxida
Family: Lumbricidae
Genus: Amynthas

Point of view

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Forensic Facility-work-2

Ecological ecological-science

Economic

  • live above soil, squirming in or just below the plant litter (all of the leaves, things and bark that have fallen to the ground)
  • live in trees, inside decaying wood or piles of plant material that gather between limbs
  • travel through upper layers of the soil
  • burrow deeply into the soil, creating permanent channels up to several meters long
  • Invasive earthworms destroyed the duff on which wildflowers, understory shrubs and tree seedlings depended

References

  1. Implication of evidence moving over time

  2. Actions of earthworm and rates of the sinking of small object into a given soil environment is predictable.

  3. Effect of vegetation growth and soil color from buried horizon(decomposed site) indicate the primary deposition site of body.

  4. specific archaeological techniques

Species Description

Amynthas agrestis that also known as The Crazy Snake Worm is an aggressively invasive earthworm that hails from Korea and Japan. Most earthworm species found in Vermont have probably come into North America by early colonial trading with Europe. These worms are in the family of Lumbricidae. The new invaders are from East Asia and are in the earthworm family Megascolecidae. There are several Amynthas species in the North East. These species are usually called Jumper worms (Alabama Jumpers), Wrigglers (Jersey Wrigglers) or Snake Worms. It is difficult to differentiate among these species by looking at their external appearance. One needs to look : at the internal organs of these worms to tell which species they are. The only Amynthas species found in Vermont to this date are Amynthas agrestis.


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LeBlanc, C. (2017, October 31). Tiny earthworms' big impact. Retrieved December 17, 2017, from https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/tiny-earthworms-big-impact

Görres, J. (n.d.). Josef Görres, Amynthas agrestis: The Crazy Snake Worm. Retrieved December 16, 2017, from http://blog.uvm.edu/jgorres/amynthas/

Shows anticancer effect by preventing excess glucose uptake (Balamurugan et al., 2009

Earthworm studies have shown its anticancer (Cooper et al., 2004), antimicrobial (Cooper et al., 2008), hepatoprotective (Balamurugan et al., 2008) and scar wound healing characteristics.

Recognized in oriental medicine as anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic agent (Prakash and Gunasekaran, 2010)

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Group member

Nurul syahida bt mohamed darussalam (57569l

Khairun Nisa Binti Raduan (56296)

Amirah huda bt hashim (58448)

The Ching Chuin (58151)

  • Earthworms mix the soil, loosening it and moving nutrients around
  • Earthworms even shred leftover plants part into smaller fragments eaten by microorganisms
  • Can improve and enrich the soil, allowing garden and certain crop plants to grew better

Agriculture

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Nurul shafiqah bt amran(57558)

Nurul Atiqah Bt Norramli (59075)

Nurul syafira binti hassim (57568)