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but take a closer look at the head and you’ll see that the prostomium—the little lobe that comes off the first segment—is tanylobous, having creases until segment 2. that means it’s genus Lumbricus, which are all usually a dark reddish color!

here is the albino meeting another juvenile, a Lumbricus terrestris. I’m unsure if the albino is L. terrestris or rubellus, and will need to wait for it to grow up to be able to tell.

Giant earthworms, Driloleirus sp., Megascolecidae

Found in Oregon

Green Earthworm (Aporrectodea smaragdina), family Lumbricidae, Slovenia

photographs by Ton van Haaren