Heterodrilus flexuosus
Appearance
Heterodrilus flexuosus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Clade: | Sedentaria |
Class: | Clitellata |
Order: | Tubificida |
Family: | Naididae |
Genus: | Heterodrilus |
Species: | H. flexuosus
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Binomial name | |
Heterodrilus flexuosus Erséus, 1990
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Heterodrilus flexuosus is a species of oligochaete worm, first found in Belize, on the Caribbean side of Central America.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Erseus, Christer (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". Zoologica Scripta. 19 (3): 243–303. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x. ISSN 0300-3256.
Further reading
[edit]- Diaz, Robert J., and Christer Erseus. "Habitat preferences and species associations of shallow-water marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from the barrier reef ecosystems off Belize, Central America." Aquatic Oligochaete Biology V. Springer Netherlands, 1994. 93-105.
- Rousset, Vincent, et al. "Evolution of habitat preference in Clitellata (Annelida)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95.3 (2008): 447-464.
- Sjölin, Erica, and Lena M. Gustavsson. "An ultrastructural study of the cuticle in the marine annelid Heterodrilus (Tubificidae, Clitellata)." Journal of morphology 269.1 (2008): 45-53.
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