MSBIAS taxon details
Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller, 1774)
177538 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177538)
accepted
Species
marine
(of ) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller, 1774). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177538 on 2025-05-19
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller, 1774). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177538 on 2025-05-19
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(of ) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
additional source Piguet, E. (1919). Wasserbewohnende Oligochaeten der nord-schwedischen Hochgebirge. <em>Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lappland.</em> 4(7): 779-804.
page(s): 795 [details]
additional source Hrabě, S. (1935). Oligohety ozera Issyk-Kul. [Die Oligochaeten des Issykkulsees]. [The oligochaetes of Lake Issyk-Kul]. <em>Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Kirgizskoj kompleksnoj expedicii.</em> 3: 73–85.
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kasprzak, K. (1973). Notatki o faunie skąposzczetów (Oligochaeta) Polski, I [Notes on Oligochaeta fauna of Poland, I]. <em>Fragmenta Faunistika.</em> 18(21): 405-434., available online at http://rcin.org.pl/miiz/Content/43840/WA058_50692_P256-T18_Frag-Faun-Nr-21.pdf
page(s): 427 [details] Available for editors
additional source Dieffenbach, O. (1886). Anatomische und systematische studien an Oligochaetae limicolae. I. Zur Anatomie von Lumbriculus variegatus; II. Zur Anatomie der Tubificiden; III. Systematische bemerkungen über Tubificiden; IV. Beobachtungen an Nais elinguis und lurida; V. Eine neue Pachydrilus art. <em>Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde.</em> 24: 65-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12821269
page(s): 65 [details]
additional source Eisen, G. (1872). Om nagra arktiska Oligochaeter. <em>Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar.</em> 29(1): 119-124 + Plate 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59627609
page(s): 122 [details]
additional source Hesse, R. (1894). Die Geslechtsorgane von Lumbriculus variegatus Grube. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 58: 355-363 + Plate XXII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43265093 [details]
additional source Timm, T.; Erséus, C.; Lundberg, S. (1996). New and unusual records of freshwater oligochaeta from the Scandinavian Peninsula. <em>Nordic Journal of Freshwater Research.</em> 72:15-29., available online at https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/48949
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
additional source Timm,. T. (2004). Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS2. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Levinsen, G.M.R. (1884 (for year 1883)). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn.</em> 45(1883): 95-354 + plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16065206
page(s): 228 [details]
additional source Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. <em>[Book].</em> 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71343
page(s): 214 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source Ferronnière, G. (1899). IIIe Contribution a l'Etude de la Faune de la Loire-Inferieure (Annelida oligochetes). <em>Bull. Soc. sc. nat. Ouest.</em> T. 9. fasc. III: p229-295 + 2 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5857541#page/341/mode/1up
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Grube, E. (1844). Über den Lumbricus variegatus Müller's und ihm verwandte Anneliden. <em>Arch. Naturgesch.</em> 10: 198-216. [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. <em>African Zoology.</em> 2(2): 131-166.
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. <em>Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci.</em> 84.
page(s): 237 [details] Available for editors
additional source Udekem, J. d'. (1859). Nouvelle classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.</em> 31: 1-28., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16207584
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Friend, H. (1912). Some Annelids of the Thames Valley. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 32(213): 95-106.
page(s): 99 [details]
additional source Rodriguez, P. (1988). Sur certaines espèces de Lumbriculidae (Annelida : Oligochaeta) du nord de la péninsule ibérique. <em>Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology.</em> 24(3): 203-211., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/1988018 [details] Available for editors
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. <em>Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland.</em> 3(8): 99-128., available online at https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300496/QL1_U7_1971_v3no8.pdf
page(s): 106 [details]
additional source Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 16: 217-291, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14253066
page(s): 255 [details]
additional source Hrabĕ, S. (1939). Vodni Oligochaeta z Vysokych Tater. <em>Věst. Česk. Zool. Spol.</em> 6-7: 209-236., available online at http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/knav/view/uuid:6b9eee0f-d5cf-4e7b-bb7b-7919f93e3889?page=uuid:c2b21a7f-9064-4405-afd5-1cb9f5120a12
page(s): 229 [details] Available for editors
additional source Michaelsen, W. (1929). Oligochaten der Kamtschatka-Expedition 1908-1909. <em>Annu Mus Zool Leningrad.</em> 30: 315-329. [details]
additional source Eisen, G.A. (1879). On the Oligochaeta collected during the swedish expeditions to the arctic regions in the years 1870, 1875 and 1876. <em>Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar.</em> 15(7): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33813410
page(s): 9 [details]
additional source Lastočkin, Dmitrij Alexandrovich. (1921). Issledovanija po faune Ivanovo-Voznesenskoj gubernii, organizovannye selsko-hozjajstvennym fakultetom I.-V. P. I. letom 1920 goda. 2. Fauna Oligochaeta limicola rajona issledovanija. <em>Izvestija Ivanovo- Voznesenskogo Politehničeskogo Instituta.</em> 4: 70-77.
page(s): 76 [details]
status source Gustafsson, D. R.; Price, D. A.; Erséus, C. (2009). Genetic variation in the popular lab worm Lumbriculus variegatus (Annelida: Clitellata: Lumbriculidae) reveals cryptic speciation. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 51(2): 182-189., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790308005939
page(s): 187; note: reports 3 clades, including 2 co-occurring clades in Sweden they regard as separate species, unknown which if either was Müller's (1774) species. [details] Available for editors
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
additional source Piguet, E. (1919). Wasserbewohnende Oligochaeten der nord-schwedischen Hochgebirge. <em>Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lappland.</em> 4(7): 779-804.
page(s): 795 [details]
additional source Hrabě, S. (1935). Oligohety ozera Issyk-Kul. [Die Oligochaeten des Issykkulsees]. [The oligochaetes of Lake Issyk-Kul]. <em>Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Kirgizskoj kompleksnoj expedicii.</em> 3: 73–85.
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kasprzak, K. (1973). Notatki o faunie skąposzczetów (Oligochaeta) Polski, I [Notes on Oligochaeta fauna of Poland, I]. <em>Fragmenta Faunistika.</em> 18(21): 405-434., available online at http://rcin.org.pl/miiz/Content/43840/WA058_50692_P256-T18_Frag-Faun-Nr-21.pdf
page(s): 427 [details] Available for editors
additional source Dieffenbach, O. (1886). Anatomische und systematische studien an Oligochaetae limicolae. I. Zur Anatomie von Lumbriculus variegatus; II. Zur Anatomie der Tubificiden; III. Systematische bemerkungen über Tubificiden; IV. Beobachtungen an Nais elinguis und lurida; V. Eine neue Pachydrilus art. <em>Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde.</em> 24: 65-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12821269
page(s): 65 [details]
additional source Eisen, G. (1872). Om nagra arktiska Oligochaeter. <em>Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar.</em> 29(1): 119-124 + Plate 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59627609
page(s): 122 [details]
additional source Hesse, R. (1894). Die Geslechtsorgane von Lumbriculus variegatus Grube. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 58: 355-363 + Plate XXII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43265093 [details]
additional source Timm, T.; Erséus, C.; Lundberg, S. (1996). New and unusual records of freshwater oligochaeta from the Scandinavian Peninsula. <em>Nordic Journal of Freshwater Research.</em> 72:15-29., available online at https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/48949
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
additional source Timm,. T. (2004). Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS2. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Levinsen, G.M.R. (1884 (for year 1883)). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn.</em> 45(1883): 95-354 + plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16065206
page(s): 228 [details]
additional source Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. <em>[Book].</em> 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71343
page(s): 214 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source Ferronnière, G. (1899). IIIe Contribution a l'Etude de la Faune de la Loire-Inferieure (Annelida oligochetes). <em>Bull. Soc. sc. nat. Ouest.</em> T. 9. fasc. III: p229-295 + 2 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5857541#page/341/mode/1up
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Grube, E. (1844). Über den Lumbricus variegatus Müller's und ihm verwandte Anneliden. <em>Arch. Naturgesch.</em> 10: 198-216. [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. <em>African Zoology.</em> 2(2): 131-166.
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. <em>Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci.</em> 84.
page(s): 237 [details] Available for editors
additional source Udekem, J. d'. (1859). Nouvelle classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.</em> 31: 1-28., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16207584
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Friend, H. (1912). Some Annelids of the Thames Valley. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 32(213): 95-106.
page(s): 99 [details]
additional source Rodriguez, P. (1988). Sur certaines espèces de Lumbriculidae (Annelida : Oligochaeta) du nord de la péninsule ibérique. <em>Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology.</em> 24(3): 203-211., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/1988018 [details] Available for editors
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. <em>Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland.</em> 3(8): 99-128., available online at https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300496/QL1_U7_1971_v3no8.pdf
page(s): 106 [details]
additional source Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 16: 217-291, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14253066
page(s): 255 [details]
additional source Hrabĕ, S. (1939). Vodni Oligochaeta z Vysokych Tater. <em>Věst. Česk. Zool. Spol.</em> 6-7: 209-236., available online at http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/knav/view/uuid:6b9eee0f-d5cf-4e7b-bb7b-7919f93e3889?page=uuid:c2b21a7f-9064-4405-afd5-1cb9f5120a12
page(s): 229 [details] Available for editors
additional source Michaelsen, W. (1929). Oligochaten der Kamtschatka-Expedition 1908-1909. <em>Annu Mus Zool Leningrad.</em> 30: 315-329. [details]
additional source Eisen, G.A. (1879). On the Oligochaeta collected during the swedish expeditions to the arctic regions in the years 1870, 1875 and 1876. <em>Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar.</em> 15(7): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33813410
page(s): 9 [details]
additional source Lastočkin, Dmitrij Alexandrovich. (1921). Issledovanija po faune Ivanovo-Voznesenskoj gubernii, organizovannye selsko-hozjajstvennym fakultetom I.-V. P. I. letom 1920 goda. 2. Fauna Oligochaeta limicola rajona issledovanija. <em>Izvestija Ivanovo- Voznesenskogo Politehničeskogo Instituta.</em> 4: 70-77.
page(s): 76 [details]
status source Gustafsson, D. R.; Price, D. A.; Erséus, C. (2009). Genetic variation in the popular lab worm Lumbriculus variegatus (Annelida: Clitellata: Lumbriculidae) reveals cryptic speciation. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 51(2): 182-189., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790308005939
page(s): 187; note: reports 3 clades, including 2 co-occurring clades in Sweden they regard as separate species, unknown which if either was Müller's (1774) species. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (69 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (219 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lumbriculus variegatus)
To GenBank (257 nucleotides; 176 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (9 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (219 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lumbriculus variegatus)
To GenBank (257 nucleotides; 176 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (9 records)
To ITIS