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

Enchytraeus buchholzi Vejdovský, 1878

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Enchytraeus*	Henle, 1837	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Enchytraeus buchholzii*	Vejdovský, 1878	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: grindal worm 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: Grindalwurm

Literature

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	Radu, V.Gh.; Stefan, V. (1969). Contributii la studiul enchytreidelor din sol (IV). Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Biologia. 14(1): 117-119.
additional source	Nielsen, C. O.; Christensen, B. (1959). The Enchytraeidae: critical revision and taxonomy of European species (Studies on Enchytraeidae VII). Natura Jutlandica. 8-9: 1-160.
additional source	Bretscher, K. (1902). Beobachtungen über die Oligochaeten der Schweiz VI. Folge. Revue Suisse Zool. 10:1-29.
additional source	Chen, J.; Schmelz, R. M.; Zhang, Z.; Xie, Z. (2022). The enchytraeid fauna (Enchytraeidae: Clitellata) of the Fanjing Mountain National Nature Reserve (China) with description of two new species. Journal of Natural History. 56(45-48): 1957-1996.
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	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.
additional source	Ude, H. (1896). Enchytraeiden. Ergebnisse der Hamburgischen Magalhaensische Sammelreise. 3: 1-43 + 1 Plate.
additional source	Černosvitov, L. (1939). VI. OLIGOCHAETA. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 1(1): 81-116.
source of synonymy	Michaelsen, W. (1900). Das Tierreich. Vermes, Oligochaeta. Friedländer & Sohn Berlin, Germany. 10.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Enchytraeus buchholzi Vejdovský, 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:137403

Dr. Emilia Rota. Enchytraeus buchholzi Vejdovský, 1878. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4fc5f294-a52c-4ca4-8853-c8fd97b5af03