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

Oligochaeta Grube, 1850

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Crassiclitellata Jamieson, 1988
Diplotesticulata
Enchytraeida Kasprzak, 1984
Lumbriculata
Oligochaeta incertae sedis
Tubificata

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: earthworms; oligochaete worms; oligochaetes; oligochetes sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;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.

French: oligochète

German: Oligochaeten; Wenigborster 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.

Swedish: fåborstmaskar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Малощетинкові черви

Literature

original description	Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364.
basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1881 (for year 1880)). Materialia Ad Zoographiam Ponticam Comparatam. Fasciculum III. Vermes [first part of 3]. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody). 55(4): 213-363 + 2 Plates.
additional source	Reynolds, J. W. & Cook, D. G. (1976-1992). Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica. A Catalogue of Names, Descriptions and Type Specimens of the Oligochaeta. The University of New Brunswick.1976. X+217 p. Supplementum Primum. 1981. V+39 p. Supplementum Secundum. 1989. V+37 p. Supplementum Tertium. 1992. V+33 p.
taxonomy 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.
taxonomy source	Erséus, C. (2005). Phylogeny of oligochaetous Clitellata. Hydrobiologia. 535/536: 357–372.
identification resource	Hrabě, S. (1981). The freshwater Oligochaeta (Annelida) of Czechoslovakia. Acta Univ. Carolinae, 1979, Biologia. 1: 1-166.
identification resource	Alekseeva, V.R. & S.Y. Ualolikhina (eds.). (2016). Определитель зоопланктона и зообентоса пресных вод Европейской России. Т. 2. Зообентос [zooplankton and zoobenthos of fresh waters of European Russia. Vol.2 Zoobenthos]. Association of Scientific Publications KMK, Moscow, Saint Petersburg. 457pp.
identification resource	Kathman, R.D.; Brinkhurst, R.O. (1998). Guide to the freshwater Oligochaetes of North America. Aquatic Resources Centre, Tennessee. 264pp.
identification resource	Timm, T. (2009). A guide to the freshwater Oligochaeta and Polychaeta of Northern and Central Europe. Lauterbornia. 66:1-235.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127.
identification resource	Cook, D.G.; Brinkhurst, R.O. (1973). Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Annelida: Oligochaeta. NOAA Technical report NMFS CIRC-374. 23pp.
identification resource	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.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1976). Aquatic Oligochaeta recorded from Canada and the St. Lawrence Great Lakes. Pacific Marine Science Report. 76-4: 1-49.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 84.