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 diastrophus (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

*Chaetogaster palustris*	Pointner, 1914	subjective synonym
*Nais diastropha*	Gruithuisen, 1828	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Naidu, K. V.; Srivastava, H. N. (1980). Some fresh-water oligochaeta of Nagpur, India. Hydrobiologia. 72(3): 261-271.
basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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	Jelinek, H. (2011). Untersuchungen zur Systematik der Naididae D'Udekem, 1855 (Annelida, Clitellata, Oligochaeta). DIssertation Uiversity of Hamburg. 380pp + Appendix.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O.; Kathman, R.D. (1983). A contribution to the taxonomy of the Naididae (Oligochaeta) of North America. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 61(10): 2307-2312.
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	Harman, W. J. (1973). New Species of Oligochaeta (Naididae) with Additional Distributional Records from Oklahoma and Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist. 18(2): 151-164.
additional source	Southern, Rowland. (1909). Contributions towards a monograph of the British and Irish Oligochaeta. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 27: 119-182 + plates VII-XI.
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.
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	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	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Knöllner, F. H. (1935). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen über litorale und marine Oligochäten der Kieler Bucht. Zoologische Jahrbuecher (Systematik). 66: 425-512.
additional source	Galloway, T.W. (1911). The common fresh-water Oligocheta of the United States. Transactions of American Microscopical Society. 30(1): 285-317.
taxonomy source	Mack, Joseph M.; Klinth, Mårten; Martinsson, Svante; Lu, Robert; Stormer, Hannah; Hanington, Patrick; Proctor, Heather C.; Erséus, Christer; Bely, Alexandra E. (2023). Cryptic carnivores: Intercontinental sampling reveals extensive novel diversity in a genus of freshwater annelids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 182: 107748.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Chaetogaster diastrophus (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:157589

Tarmo Timm. Chaetogaster diastrophus (Gruithuisen, 1828). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7494caf8-3f86-4421-9a7f-3266dfa8a2d7