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

Chaetogaster diaphanus (Gruithuisen, 1828)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Nais Muller, 1774

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chaetogaster*	von Baer, 1827	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Nais diaphana*	Gruithuisen, 1828	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	Jelinek, H. (2011). Untersuchungen zur Systematik der Naididae D'Udekem, 1855 (Annelida, Clitellata, Oligochaeta). DIssertation Uiversity of Hamburg. 380pp + Appendix.
additional source	Lastočkin, Dmitrij Alexandrovich. (1921). Issledovanija po faune Ivanovo-Voznesenskoj gubernii, organizovannye selsko-hozjajstvennym fakultetom I.-V. P. I. letom 1920 goda. 2. Fauna Oligochaeta limicola rajona issledovanija. Izvestija Ivanovo- Voznesenskogo Politehničeskogo Instituta. 4: 70-77.
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	Galloway, T.W. (1911). The common fresh-water Oligocheta of the United States. Transactions of American Microscopical Society. 30(1): 285-317.
additional source	Dehorne, L. (1916). Les Naidomorphes et leur reproduction asexuee. Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale. 56(2):25-157 + Plates I-III.
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	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.
additional source	Hagen, G. (1951). Vergleichende ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen der eulitoralen Oligochaetenfauna in Süsswasser-, Brackwasser- und Meeresgebieten Schleswig-Holsteins. Dissertation Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 84.
additional source	Chen, C. (1940). Taxonomy and faunal relations of the limnitic Oligochaeta of China. Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Zool. 14: 1-131.
additional source	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Piguet, E. (1919). Wasserbewohnende Oligochaeten der nord-schwedischen Hochgebirge. Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lappland. 4(7): 779-804.
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	Vivien, R.; Lafont, M.; Issartel, C.; Ferrari, B. J. D.; Martin, P. (2024). The Genus Chaetogaster Baer, 1827 (Annelida, Clitellata) in Switzerland: A First Step toward Cataloguing Its Molecular Diversity and Description of New Species on a DNA Sequence Basis. Biology. 13(9): 693.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1964). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta. I. Naididae and Opistocytidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 116:195-230.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127.
biology source	Poddubnaja, T.L. (1968). Biology of reproduction of Chaetogaster diaphanus Gruith. (Oligochaeta, Naididae). In: Biology and trophic relationships of freshwater invertebrates and fish. USSR. Academy of Science of the USSR, Leningrad. 17(20): 3-20.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Chaetogaster diaphanus (Gruithuisen, 1828). 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:137478

Tarmo Timm. Chaetogaster diaphanus (Gruithuisen, 1828). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ad8fc75c-4fef-4453-bff5-2fe5e3c98e23