Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Polychaeta incertae sedis > Family Protodrilidae

Megadrilus Martınez, Di Domenico, Rouse & Worsaae, 2015

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Megadrilus purpureus (Schneider, 1868)
Megadrilus schneideri (Langerhans, 1880)

Literature

original description

Martínez, Alejandro; Di Domenico, Maikon; Rouse, Greg W.; Worsaae, Katrine. (2015). Phylogeny and systematics of Protodrilidae (Annelida) inferred with total evidence analyses. Cladistics. 31(3): 250–276.

additional source

Martínez, Alejandro; Kvindebjerg, Kirsten; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Worsaae, Katrine. (2017). Evolution of cave suspension feeding in Protodrilidae (Annelida). Zoologica Scripta. 46(2): 214-226.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Megadrilus Martinez, Di Domenico, Rouse & Worsaae, 2015. 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:843419

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2016-08-24 by Geoffrey Read

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