Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Subclass Lumbriculata > Order Lumbriculida > Family Lumbriculidae

Lumbriculus Grube, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Saenuris*	Hoffmeister, 1843	synonym

Children

Lumbriculus alexandrovi Popcenko, 1976
Lumbriculus tetraporophorus Popcenko, 1976
Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller, 1774)

Literature

original description	Grube, E. (1844). Über den Lumbricus variegatus Müller's und ihm verwandte Anneliden. Arch. Naturgesch. 10: 198-216.
basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 16: 217-291, plates 1-4.
additional source	Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1881 (for year 1880)). Materialia Ad Zoographiam Ponticam Comparatam. Fasciculum III. Vermes [first part of 3]. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody). 55(4): 213-363 + 2 Plates.
taxonomy source	Eisen, G. (1878). On the anatomy of Ocnerodrilus. Nova acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. (3), 10(4): 1-12 + Plates I-II.
biology source	Tweeten, Kay A. (2025). Sexual reproduction by diploid populations from the Lumbriculus complex (Clitellata: Lumbriculidae) is extensive and seasonal. Invertebrate Reproduction & Development. 69: 1-13.
biology source	Hyman, Libbie Henrietta. (1916). An Analysis of the Process of Regeneration in Certain Microdrilous Oligochaetes. Journal of experimental zoology. 20(2): 99-163.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Lumbriculus Grube, 1844. 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:177537

Tarmo Timm. Lumbriculus Grube, 1844. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e5837fc2-ec35-4891-be7e-56d2a869ff16