Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Order Crassiclitellata > Suborder Lumbricina > Superfamily Lumbricoidea

Lumbricidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Diporodrilinae
Lumbricinae
Spermophorodrilinae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Swedish: daggmaskar

Literature

original description	Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp.
additional source	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Latif, Robabeh; Malek, Masoumeh; Aminjan, Atabak Roohi; Pasantes, Juan José; Briones, Maria J. I.; Csuzdi, Csaba. (2020). Integrative taxonomy of some Iranian peregrine earthworm species using morphology and barcoding (Annelida: Megadrili). Zootaxa. 4877(1): 163-173.
additional source	Claus, C. (1876). Grundzüge der Zoologie. (Third edition) [Principles of Zoology]. N.G. Elwertsche Verlagsuchhandlung, Marburg & Leipzig. 1-1254. (vol.1. incl. Annelides p.394-421, Copepoda p.465-480, vol.2 Mollusca),.
additional source	Udekem, J. d'. (1855). Nouvelles classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 22(2): 533-557, 3 figs.
additional source	Udekem, J. d'. (1859). Nouvelle classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 31: 1-28.
taxonomy source	Rosa, D. (1893). Revisione dei Lumbricide. Memorie della Reale accademia delle scienze di Torino. Ser. 2:43(1):399-476 + 2 tables.
taxonomy source	ICZN. (1978). Opinion 1102. Completion of entry on official list of generic names in zoology relating to Lumbricus Linnaeus, 1758 (Annelida, Oligochaeta) (Name no. 213). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 34 (4): 213–217.
taxonomy source	Easton, E. G. (1983). A guide to the valid names of Lumbricidae (Oligochaeta). [Book chapter]. Chapter 41, p.475-487 In Satchell, J. E. (editor) "Earthworm ecology from Darwin to Vermiculture, 495 pp, Chapman and Hall, London/New York.
taxonomy source	Van Haaren, T.; Martin, P.; Dubois, A. (2021). Authorship and date of five family-series nomina in Oligochaeta (Annelida): Lumbricidae, Naididae, Enchytraeidae, Tubificidae and Lumbriculidae. Bionomina. 21(1): 140-145.
identification resource	Reynolds, J. W. (1977). The earthworms (Lumbricidae and Sparganophilidae) of Ontario. (Royal Ontario Museum life sciences miscellaneous publication). Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.