Enliven: Bioinformatics

Information Resource: Database on Indian Earthworm
Author(s): Jagadesan Sankarasubramanian, Pavithra KB and Kavitha B

Earthworm is also called as Oligochaeta. It was the first database which can provide the information about the earthworm species in India. We identified 68 genus and 515 species of earthworms all over India. The database consists of family, taxonomy, length, segments, diameter, food habit, habitat, casting, description and distribution of the Indian species. The database was developed by MySQL running in Windows operating system. The database interface was developed by PHP, and HTML.