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 127661, geounit Belizean part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal and subtidal sand, to at least 7m depth [details]
Distribution Belize and Barbados [details]
Etymology The species epithet gravidus is Latin for 'pregnant'. here referring to the presence of large, yolky eggs in all clitellate specimens. [details]
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