Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Order Enchytraeida > Family Enchytraeidae

Mesenchytraeus Eisen, 1878

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Analycus Levinsen, 1884 synonym

Children

Mesenchytraeus argentatus Nurminen, 1973
Mesenchytraeus armatus (Levinsen, 1884)
Mesenchytraeus beumeri (Michaelsen, 1886)
Mesenchytraeus celticus Southern, 1909
Mesenchytraeus eltoni Stephenson, 1925
Mesenchytraeus falciformis Eisen, 1878
Mesenchytraeus flavidus Michaelsen, 1887
Mesenchytraeus flavus (Levinsen, 1884)
Mesenchytraeus franzi Nurminen, 1977
Mesenchytraeus gaudens Cognetti, 1903
Mesenchytraeus glandulosus (Levinsen, 1884)
Mesenchytraeus kuehnelti Dozsa-Farkas, 1991
Mesenchytraeus lusitanicus Collado, Martinez-Ansemil & Giani, 1993
Mesenchytraeus monochaetus Bretscher, 1900
Mesenchytraeus oglobini Cernosvitov, 1928
Mesenchytraeus pelicensis Issel, 1905
Mesenchytraeus primaevus Eisen, 1878
Mesenchytraeus sanguineus Nielsen & Christensen, 1959
Mesenchytraeus straminicolus Rota, 1995
Mesenchytraeus tetrapodus Timm & Popcenko, 1978
Mesenchytraeus vivii Timm & Popcenko, 1978

Literature

original description

Eisen, G. (1878). Redogörelse för Oligochaeter samlade under de Svenska expeditionerna till Arktiska trakter. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 35(3): 63-79.

basis of record

Timm,. T. (2004). Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS2.

additional source

Eisen, G.A. (1879). On the Oligochaeta collected during the swedish expeditions to the arctic regions in the years 1870, 1875 and 1876. Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar. 15(7): 1-49.

additional source

Černosvitov, L. (1937). System der Enchytraeiden. Bull Ass. Russe Rech. Prague Sci. Volume: 5 Issue: (34): 263-295.

additional source

Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.

additional source

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].

Genbank

loading

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Mesenchytraeus Eisen, 1878. 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:177403

Dr. Emilia Rota. Mesenchytraeus Eisen, 1878. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/5cc4887b-ac06-46b7-bedb-fa733ba83fc0

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177403
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96157

Last modified

2022-11-27 by Dr. Emilia Rota & by Ton van Haaren

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: