Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Subclass Tubificata > Order Tubificida > Suborder Tubificina > Superfamily Tubificoidea > Family Naididae > Subfamily Tubificinae > Genus Limnodrilus

Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limnodrilus*	Claparède, 1862	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Limnodrilus parvus*	Southern, 1909	subjective synonym

Literature

original description	Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 16: 217-291, plates 1-4.
basis of record	Ohtaka, A.; Usman, R. (1997). Records of tubificid oligochaetes from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, with description of a new species of Aulodrilus Bretscher. Species diversity. 2(2): 145-154.
basis of record	Naidu, K. V. (1965). Some fresh-water Oligochaeta of Singapore. Bull. Natl. Mus. Singapore. 33(3): 13-21.
basis of record	Erséus, C.; Healy, B.M. (2001). Oligochaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 231-234
basis of record	Naidu, K. V.; Srivastava, H. N. (1980). Some fresh-water oligochaeta of Nagpur, India. Hydrobiologia. 72(3): 261-271.
additional source	Černosvitov, L. (1939). VI. OLIGOCHAETA. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 1(1): 81-116.
additional source	Erséus, C.; Hsieh, H.-L. (1997). Records of Estuarine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from Taiwan. Species Diversity. 2:97-104.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Lastočkin, Dmitrij Alexandrovich. (1921). Issledovanija po faune Ivanovo-Voznesenskoj gubernii, organizovannye selsko-hozjajstvennym fakultetom I.-V. P. I. letom 1920 goda. 2. Fauna Oligochaeta limicola rajona issledovanija. Izvestija Ivanovo- Voznesenskogo Politehničeskogo Instituta. 4: 70-77.
additional source	Kasprzak, K. (1973). Notatki o faunie skąposzczetów (Oligochaeta) Polski, I [Notes on Oligochaeta fauna of Poland, I]. Fragmenta Faunistika. 18(21): 405-434.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 84.
additional source	Wetzel, M.J. (1987). Limnodrilus tortilipenis, a new north american species of freshwater Tubificidae (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 100 (1):182-185.
additional source	Botea, F. (1983). Oligochètes souterraines de Cuba. Résultats des expéditions biospéologiques cubano-roumaines à Cuba. 4: 19-38.
additional source	Dieffenbach, O. (1886). Anatomische und systematische studien an Oligochaetae limicolae. I. Zur Anatomie von Lumbriculus variegatus; II. Zur Anatomie der Tubificiden; III. Systematische bemerkungen über Tubificiden; IV. Beobachtungen an Nais elinguis und lurida; V. Eine neue Pachydrilus art. Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde. 24: 65-108.
additional source	Friend, H. (1912). British Tubificidae. Journal of the Royal microscopical society. p265-293.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl. 2: 1-89.
additional source	Goretti, E.; Marcucci, C.; Di Veroli, A.; Fabrizi, A.; Gaino, E. (2014). The tubificids (Annelida, Oligochaeta) of Lake Trasimeno and Lake Piediluco in Central Italy, with a study of SEM morphology of some species. Turkish Journal of Zoology. 38: 334-341.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Černosvitov, L. (1938). The oligochaeta. in: Washbourn, R. & Jones, R.F. Report of the Percy Sladen Expedition to Lake Huleh; a contribution to the study of the Fresh waters of Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2(11): 535-550.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1965). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta II: Tubificidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 117 (4):117-172.
additional source	Hiltunen, J. K. (1967). Some oligochaetes from Lake Michigan. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 433-454.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O.; Cook, D.G. (1966). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta III: Lumbriculidae and additional notes and records of other families. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 118(1): 1-33.
additional source	Dzwillo, M. (1966). Untersuchungen über die Zusammensetzung der Tubificidenfauna im Bereich des Hamburger Hafens. Abh.Verh.naturw.Ver.Hamburg (N.F.). 11: 101-116.
additional source	Hagen, G. (1951). Vergleichende ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen der eulitoralen Oligochaetenfauna in Süsswasser-, Brackwasser- und Meeresgebieten Schleswig-Holsteins. Dissertation Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel.
additional source	Eisen, G. (1879). Preliminary Report on Genera and Species of Tubificidae. Bih. K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 5(16):1-26 + 1 plate.
additional source	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Ferronnière, G. (1899). IIIe Contribution a l'Etude de la Faune de la Loire-Inferieure (Annelida oligochetes). Bull. Soc. sc. nat. Ouest. T. 9. fasc. III: p229-295 + 2 plates.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. African Zoology. 2(2): 131-166.
additional source	Pfannkuche, O. (1977). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen an naidomorphen Oligochaeten brackiger und Iimnischer Biotope. Dissertation, Universität Hamburg. 138pp.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland. 3(8): 99-128.
additional source	Chen, C. (1940). Taxonomy and faunal relations of the limnitic Oligochaeta of China. Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Zool. 14: 1-131.
additional source	Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, E. (1947). Naidids and tubificids from Brazil. Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montev. 2(44): 1-20.
additional source	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127.

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Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137556

Tarmo Timm. Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7ab5ccdf-4c2a-4417-a215-9f1df8781a85