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

Marionina spicula (Leuckart, 1847)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Marionina*	Michaelsen in Pfeffer, 1890	accepted genus name
*Marionia*	Michaelsen, 1889	synonym
*Michaelsena*	Ude, 1896	synonym

Species group names

*Enchytraeus spiculus*	Leuckart, 1847	synonym

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	Lasserre, P. (1971). The marine Enchytraeidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta) of the eastern coast of North America with notes on their geographical distribution and habitat. Biol.Bull. 140:440-460.
additional source	Shurova, N. M. (1979). Enchytraeids (Oligochaeta) of the far-east seas of the USSR. In: Studies on the pelagic and groundinhabiting organisms of the Far East seas. Vladivostok. 75-89.
additional source	Lasserre, P.; Erseus, C. (1976). Oligochètes marins des Bermudes. Nouvelles espèces et remarques sur la distribution géographique de quelques Tubificidae et Enchytraeidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 17: 447-462
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Healy, B. (1979). Records of Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) in Ireland. Journal of Life Sciences of the Royal Dublin Society. 1: 39-70.
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	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.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Marionina spicula (Leuckart, 1847). 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:137471