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

Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Branchiura*	Beddard, 1892	accepted genus name
*Branchiura sowerbyi*	Beddard, 1892	taxonomically included in

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: reuzenkieuwworm sources: van Haaren, T. & J. Soors. (2013). Aquatic Oligochaeta of the Netherlands and Belgium. KNNV Uitgeverij, Zeist. 302 pp.

German: Kiemenwurm; Krebsegel

Literature

original description	Beddard, F.E. (1892). A new branchiate Oligochaeta. Quart. J. Microsc. Sci. 33: 325-341.
additional source	Naidu, K. V.; Srivastava, H. N. (1980). Some fresh-water oligochaeta of Nagpur, India. Hydrobiologia. 72(3): 261-271.
additional source	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland. 3(8): 99-128.
additional source	Erséus, C.; Hsieh, H.-L. (1997). Records of Estuarine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from Taiwan. Species Diversity. 2:97-104.
additional source	Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.
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	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl. 2: 1-89.
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	Friend, H. (1912). British Tubificidae. Journal of the Royal microscopical society. p265-293.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Ohtaka, A.; Usman, R. (1997). Records of tubificid oligochaetes from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, with description of a new species of Aulodrilus Bretscher. Species diversity. 2(2): 145-154.
additional source	Stephenson, J. (1912). On Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, and on a new species of Limnodrilus with distinctive characters. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 48(15): 285-303 + Plates I-II.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1965). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta II: Tubificidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 117 (4):117-172.
additional source	Jabłońska, A.; Szlauer-Łukaszewska, A.; Bańkowska, A. (2015). Aulodrilus pigueti Kowalewski, 1914 (Annelida: Clitellata) – a new record for the Polish fauna from the Oder River and remarks on other oligochaetes rarely noticed in Poland. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies. 44(4): 456-465.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. African Zoology. 2(2): 131-166.
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	Goretti, E.; Marcucci, C.; Di Veroli, A.; Fabrizi, A.; Gaino, E. (2014). The tubificids (Annelida, Oligochaeta) of Lake Trasimeno and Lake Piediluco in Central Italy, with a study of SEM morphology of some species. Turkish Journal of Zoology. 38: 334-341.
ecology source	Grabowski, Michał; Jabłońska, Aleksandra. (2009). First records of Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892 (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) in Greece. Aquatic Invasions. 4(2): 365-367.
biology source	Carroll, J.H.; Dorris, T.C. (1972). The Life History of Branchiura sowerbyi. American Midland Naturalist. 87(2): 413-422.
biology source	Ducrot, V., A.R.R. Pery, H. Queau, R. Mons, M. Lafont & J. Garric. (2007). Rearing and estimation of life-cycle parameters of the tubicifid worm Branchiura sowerbyi: Application to ecotoxicity testing. Science of the Total Environment. 384:252-263.
biology source	Casellato, S. (1984). Life-cycle and karyology of Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae). Hydrobiologia. 115:65-69.
biology source	Casellato, S., G.Martinucci & E. Zoja. (1987). Ultrastructural features of gametogenesis during the life cycle in Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae). Hydrobiologia. 155:145-154.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182695

Tarmo Timm. Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d0486544-cce5-41dd-bc3e-3f347e1c6488