Marine Species Traits - Lumbriculida

WoRMS taxon details

Lumbriculida

AphiaID

177531 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177531)

Classification

Authority

Brinkhurst & Jamieson, 1971

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Oligochaeta

Direct children (4)

Ordering

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Family Dorydrilidae Cook, 1968
Family Lumbriculidae Claus, 1872
Family Eclipidrilidae Eisen, 1881 accepted as Lumbriculidae Claus, 1872
Family Kurenkovidae Sokolskaya, 1983 accepted as Lumbriculidae Claus, 1872 (The family contains a single species, Kurenkovia magna Sokolskaja, 1969, which has subsequently been placed within the Lumbriculidae, based on the (morphological) cladistic analysis of Brinkhurst (1989).)

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Brinkhurst, R.O.; Jamieson, B.G.M. (1971). Aquatic oligochaeta of the world. [book]. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 860 pages, With contributions by D. G. Cook, D. V. Anderson, J. Van der Land. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Lumbriculida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177531 on 2025-07-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-26 07:33:21Z

created

Timm, Tarmo

2017-06-16 09:43:14Z

changed

van Haaren, Ton

2021-09-23 09:40:21Z

changed

Martin, Patrick

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Brinkhurst, R.O.; Jamieson, B.G.M. (1971). Aquatic oligochaeta of the world. [book]. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 860 pages, With contributions by D. G. Cook, D. V. Anderson, J. Van der Land. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Other

additional source Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Erséus, Christer; Martin, Patrick; van Haaren, Ton; Timm, Tarmo. (2021). A proposed order-level classification in Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata). Zootaxa. 5040(4): 589-591., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5040.4.9
page(s): 594 [details] Available for editors

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Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	オヨギミミズ	[details]

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