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Microdrile

Common name for a type of annelid worm

Microdriles (small worms) are mostly aquatic or semi-terrestrial oligochaetes. Maggenti, Armand R.; Mary Ann Basinger Maggenti; Scott Gardner (14 September

Microdrile

Clitellum

Anatomic feature

that make up the clitellum are important for identifying earthworms. In microdrile earthworms, the clitellum has only one layer, resulting in a smaller quantity

Clitellum

Earthworm

Terrestrial invertebrate, order Opisthopora

called megadriles (which translates to "big worms") as opposed to the microdriles ("small worms") in the semiaquatic families Tubificidae, Lumbricidae

Earthworm

Oligochaeta

Subclass of annelids including earthworms

are semiaquatic or fully aquatic), and freshwater or semiterrestrial microdrile forms, including the tubificids, pot worms and ice worms (Enchytraeidae)

Oligochaeta

Enchytraeidae

Family of annelids

Enchytraeidae is a family of microdrile oligochaetes. They resemble small earthworms and include both terrestrial species known as potworms that live in

Enchytraeidae

Naididae

Family of annelids in the order Haplotaxida

list (link) Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Ottawa: Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans.

Naididae

Lumbriculidae

Family of annelid worms

The Lumbriculidae are a family of microdrile oligochaetes common in freshwater environments, including streams, lakes, marshes, wells and groundwater.

Lumbriculidae

Seamount

Mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach the water's surface

typically populated by polychaetes (annelid marine worms) oligochaetes (microdrile worms), and gastropod mollusks (sea slugs). Xenophyophores have also been

Seamount

Alaskana

Topics referred to by the same term

alaskana, a moth of the family Gracillariidae Rhynchelmis alaskana, a microdrile oligochaete in the family Lumbriculida Stellaria alaskana, a flowering

Alaskana

Gilberto Righi

Brazilian earthworm taxonomist (1937–1999)

3 treat earthworm biogeography. Besides these, he issued 16 papers on microdrile oligochaetes and 17 on other invertebrate groups, mainly on crustaceans

Gilberto Righi

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Rhynchelmis

Genus of annelids

part of the family Lumbriculidae, which are among the largest of the microdriles. They are generally defined as having atria in segment X and spermathecae

Rhynchelmis