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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 127688, geounit Carrie Bow Cay [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Belize and possibly Nicaragua [details]
Etymology This species lacks penial setae, prostate glands and spermathecae; the name miodestus (Latin for ‘moderate’, ‘keeping within bounds’) alludes to this. [details]
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