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

Heterodrilus arenicolus Pierantoni, 1902

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Heterodrilus*	Pierantoni, 1902	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Pierantoni, U. (1902). Due nuovi generi di Oligocheti marini rinvenuti nel Golfo di Napoli. Boll. Soc. Nat. Napoli. 16: 113-117.
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	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl. 2: 1-89.
additional source	Erséus, C. (1981). Taxonomic revision of the marine genus Heterodrilus Pierantoni (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae). Zoologica Scripta. 10(2): 111-132.
additional source	Pierantoni, U. (1917). Sull' Heterodrilus arenicolus Pierant. e su di una nuevo species del genere Clitellio. Bolletino Della Soc. dei Nat. in Napoli. 29 (series II, Vol. IX):82-91 + Plate 4.
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.
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. Heterodrilus arenicolus Pierantoni, 1902. 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:137548