Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Order Crassiclitellata > Suborder Lumbricina > Superfamily Megascolecoidea

Megascolecidae Rosa, 1891

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Amynthas Kinberg, 1867
Metaphire Sims & Easton, 1972
Perionyx Perrier, 1872
Pithemera Sims & Easton, 1972
Pontodrilus Perrier, 1874
Spenceriella Michaelsen, 1907

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: earthworms

Literature

original description	Rosa, Daniel. (1891). Die exotischen Terricolen des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Annalen des K. K. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Wein. 6: 379–406.
additional source	Tiwari, Nalini; Tiwari, Pooja; Gupta, Neelima; Yadav, Shweta. (2024). An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. Zootaxa. 5477(3): 251-294.
additional source	De Assis, Jose Eriberto; Souza, J. R. B.; Vieira, M. L. M.; Nunes De Souza, J. V.; Rodrigues, G. G.; Christoffersen, M. L. (2017). A catalogue of the Eudrilidae and Megascolecidae (Clitellata: Lumbricina)from South America, with two new records of exotic species from Brazil. Turkish Journal of Zoology. 41: 599-614.
additional source	Reynolds, John W. (2004). Gordon Enoch Gates – his life and work. [Edited book chapter. Workshop proceedings]. Avances en taxonomía de lombrices de tierra (Annelida: Oligochaeta) [Advances In Earthworm Taxonomy (Annelida: Oligochaeta)]. Ana G. Moreno y Sonia Borges (Editoras). Editorial Complutense. Madrid, España. CD Appendix.