WoRMS taxon details
Crassiclitellata
- Family Benhamiidae Michaelsen, 1897
- Family Megascolecidae Rosa, 1891
- Family Ocnerodrilidae Beddard, 1891
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Jamieson, Barrie G. M. (1988). On the phylogeny and higher classification of the Oligochaeta. <em>Cladistics.</em> 4: 367-410., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1988.tb00520.x
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WoRMS (2025). Crassiclitellata. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468018 on 2025-07-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Jamieson, Barrie G. M. (1988). On the phylogeny and higher classification of the Oligochaeta. <em>Cladistics.</em> 4: 367-410., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1988.tb00520.x
page(s): 387 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 387 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource
Sims, R.W.; Gerard, B.M. (1999). Earthworms. Notes for the identification of British species. <em>Synopsis of the British Fauna (N. S).</em> 31 (revised) : i-viii + 1-169. [details]
Other
context source (MSBIAS)
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. (2023). 2019 The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Wembury Bioblitz survey. The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH). , available online at https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php#details?tpc=010_71a02145fae5466afe757cd48b999ded [details]
additional source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Hutchings, Pat; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro; Martin, Patrick; Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Wetzel, Mark J.; Wiklund, Helena; Maciolek, Nancy J.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y.; Williams, Jason D. (2021). Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through <em>Zootaxa</em> and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4979(1): 190-211., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4979.1.18
page(s): 192-193 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Erséus, Christer; Martin, Patrick; van Haaren, Ton; Timm, Tarmo. (2021). A proposed order-level classification in Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5040(4): 589-591., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5040.4.9
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additional source Singh, Ankit Kumar; Khanal, Laxman. (2025). Annotated Checklist of the Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Megadrili) of Nepal. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5589(1): 91-111., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5589.1.9
note: checklist listing of Megadrili for Nepal [details]
additional source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Hutchings, Pat; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro; Martin, Patrick; Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Wetzel, Mark J.; Wiklund, Helena; Maciolek, Nancy J.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y.; Williams, Jason D. (2021). Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through <em>Zootaxa</em> and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4979(1): 190-211., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4979.1.18
page(s): 192-193 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Erséus, Christer; Martin, Patrick; van Haaren, Ton; Timm, Tarmo. (2021). A proposed order-level classification in Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5040(4): 589-591., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5040.4.9
page(s): 593 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Singh, Ankit Kumar; Khanal, Laxman. (2025). Annotated Checklist of the Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Megadrili) of Nepal. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5589(1): 91-111., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5589.1.9
note: checklist listing of Megadrili for Nepal [details]
