Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida

Clitellata Michaelsen, 1919

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Hirudinea Savigny, 1822
Oligochaeta Grube, 1850

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: clitellata sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Clitellaten; Gürtelwürmer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 有帯亜門 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: gördelmaskar

Literature

original description	Michaelsen, W. (1919). Über die Beziehungen der Hirudineen zu den Oligochäten. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut. 36: 131-153.
additional source	Klinth, Mårten; Kreiling, Agnes-Katharina; Erseus, Christer. (2019). Investigating the Clitellata (Annelida) of Icelandic springs with alternative barcodes. Fauna norvegica. 39: 119-132.
additional source	Magalhães, Wagner F.; Hutchings, Pat; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro; Martin, Patrick; Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Wetzel, Mark J.; Wiklund, Helena; Maciolek, Nancy J.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y.; Williams, Jason D. (2021). Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through Zootaxa and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. Zootaxa. 4979(1): 190-211.
taxonomy source	Erséus, Christer; Williams, B. W.; Horn, K. M.; Halanych, K. M.; Santos, S. R.; James, S. W.; Creuzé des Châtelliers, M.; Anderson, F. E. (2020). Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Palaeozoic radiation and support a freshwater origin for clitellate annelids. Zoologica Scripta. 49(5):614-640.
taxonomy source	Erseus, Christer; Kallersjo, Mari. (2004). 18S rDNA phylogeny of Clitellata (Annelida). Zoologica Scripta. 33(2): 187-196.