Heterodrilus flexuosus

Heterodrilus flexuosus is a species of oligochaete worm, first found in Belize, on the Caribbean side of Central America.[1]

Heterodrilus flexuosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Tubificida
Family: Naididae
Genus: Heterodrilus
Species:
H. flexuosus
Binomial name
Heterodrilus flexuosus
Erséus, 1990

References

  1. Erseus, Christer (1990). "The marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the barrier reef ecosystems at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, and other parts of the Caribbean Sea, with descriptions of twenty-seven new species and revision of Heterodrilus, Thalassodrilides and Smithsonidrilus". Zoologica Scripta. 19 (3): 243–303. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x. ISSN 0300-3256.

Further reading

  • Diaz, Robert J., and Christer Erseus. "Habitat preferences and species associations of shallow-water marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from the barrier reef ecosystems off Belize, Central America." Aquatic Oligochaete Biology V. Springer Netherlands, 1994. 93-105.
  • Rousset, Vincent, et al. "Evolution of habitat preference in Clitellata (Annelida)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95.3 (2008): 447-464.
  • Sjölin, Erica, and Lena M. Gustavsson. "An ultrastructural study of the cuticle in the marine annelid Heterodrilus (Tubificidae, Clitellata)." Journal of morphology 269.1 (2008): 45-53.


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