Eight August days of searching for a small whitish worm in Greenland (see previous post “Greenland enchytraeids”): Decaying seaweed is a unique habitat and there are several species of enchytraeids other than Enchytraeus albidus at the collecting sites, most of them of the genus Lumbricillus. Being a taxonomist of enchytraeids, I took the opportunity to […]

Rüdiger Schmelz, University of A Coruña, Spain GIBE, Evolutionary Biology Research Group CICA, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas rmschmelz@gmail.com A dream came true for me this summer: to study the fauna of Greenland. Is there anything more exciting for a zoologist to observe free wildlife in vast Ice Age areas … polar bears, humpback whales […]