WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Erséus, C. (1990). The marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the barrier reef ecosystems at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, and other parts of the Caribbean Sea, with descriptions of twenty-seven new species and revision of Heterodrilus, Thalassodrilides and Smithsonidrilus. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 19(3): 243-303., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype USNM 127783, geounit Carrie Bow Cay [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 0.7-1.8m [details]
Distribution Known only from Belize [details]
Etymology The epithet egenus is Latin for 'needy, in want', and alludes here to the species' lack of penial setae [details]
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