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

Limnodrilus Claparède, 1862

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Limnodrilus cervix Brinkhurst, 1963
Limnodrilus claparedianus Ratzel, 1869
Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862
Limnodrilus maumeensis Brinkhurst & Cook, 1966
Limnodrilus profundicola (Verrill, 1871)
Limnodrilus udekemianus Claparède, 1862

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	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
additional source	Dzwillo, M. (1984). Phylogenetic and taxonomic problems in freshwater Oligochaeta with special emphasis on chitinous structures in Tubificinae. Hydrobiologia. 115: 19-23.
additional source	Eisen, G. (1885). Oligochaetological researches. Report for the commisioner for 1883. 11 (for year 1883), appendix D, XX: p879-964 +Plates I-XIX.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl. 2: 1-89.
additional source	Beddard, F. E. (1892). On some aquatic oligochaetous worms. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. [1892]: 349-361.
additional source	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
taxonomy source	Rybka, J. (1898). Contribution à la morphologie et à la classification du genre Limnodrilus claparède. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 11:376-392 + Plate V.
taxonomy source	Barbour, M.; Cook, D.G.; Pomerantz, R.S. (1980). On the question of hybridization and variation in the oligochaete genus Limnodrilus. In: Aquatic Oligochaete Biology, Plenum press, new York. p41-53.
identification resource	Kennedy, C.R. (1969). The variability of some characters used for species recognition in the genus Limnodrilus Claparède (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae). Journal of Natural History. 3(1): 53-60.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Limnodrilus 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:137388

Tarmo Timm. Limnodrilus Claparède, 1862. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/effe1c00-6719-4a67-ba79-68d8cd77bd8b