Enchytraeidae is a family of microdrile oligochaetes. They resemble small earthworms and include both terrestrial species known as potworms that live in highly organic terrestrial environments, as well as some that are marine.[1] The peculiar genus Mesenchytraeus is known as "ice worms", as they spend the majority of their lives within glaciers, only rising to the surface at certain points in the summer.[2][3] Enchytraeidae also includes the Grindal Worm (Enchytraeus buchholzi), which is commercially bred as aquarium fish food.[4]
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Enchytraeidae is a family of microdrile oligochaetes. They resemble small earthworms and include both terrestrial species known as potworms that live...
clitellate Annelida occurring in the United States and Canada: families Enchytraeidae and Propappidae". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved...
microdrile forms, including the tubificids, pot worms and ice worms (Enchytraeidae), blackworms (Lumbriculidae) and several interstitial marine worms....
("small worms") in the semiaquatic families Tubificidae, Lumbricidae and Enchytraeidae. The megadriles are characterized by a distinct clitellum (more extensive...
suggested that soil is likely home to 59 ± 15% of the species on Earth. Enchytraeidae (worms) have the greatest percentage of species in soil (98.6%), followed...
is an order of annelids belonging to the class Clitellata. Families: Enchytraeidae Propappidae Randiellidae "Enchytraeida". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 14...
Bryodrilus is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. Species: Bryodrilus ehlersi Ude, 1892 "IRMNG - Bryodrilus Ude, 1892". www.irmng...
Marionina is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: Marionina aberrans Finogenova...
Globulidrilus is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. Species: Globulidrilus helgei Christensen & Dózsa-Farkas, 2012 Globulidrilus...
Cernosvitoviella is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. The genus was first described by Nielsen and Christensen in 1959. The species...
Hemifridericia is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. The species of this genus are found in Eurasia and Northern America. Species:...
many families of aquatic worms, and for native terrestrial worms: the Enchytraeidae (pot worms) and the "true" earthworms in families Acanthodrilidae, Octochaetidae...
tardigrades, small spiders, pseudoscorpions, opiliones (harvestmen), enchytraeidae such as potworms, insect larvae, small isopods and myriapods.[citation...
Christensenidrilus is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. Species: Christensenidrilus blocki (Dózsa-Farkas & Convey, 1997) "Christensenidrilus...
This is a list of the Annelida recorded from Ireland. In Ireland the number of species is: Class Polychaeta 404 species Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta...
Cognettia is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: Cognettia alsoae (Martinsson...
Enchytronia is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. The species of this genus are found in Europe. Species: Enchytronia annulata...
Achaeta eiseni is a species of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. It is native to Europe. It is named after Gustav Eisen. "Achaeta eisenii...
Pierre & Christer Erséus (2016). First reports of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) from Africa and South America: molecular phylogeny and descriptions...
Fridericia ulrikae is a species of annelid belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. It is native to Northern Europe. "Fridericia ulrikae Rota & Healy, 1999"...
under the guidance of J. B. Cragg. His thesis was titled "Ecology of enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) in Rocky Mountain forest soils (Kananaskis region, Alberta...
Gilberto, and Elizabeth Kanner. "Marine Oligochaeta (Tubificidae and Enchytraeidae) from the Caribbean Sea." Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other...
Institute. He was a soil ecologist, specializing in soil nematodes and Enchytraeidae. He investigated the role of the soil microfauna in the decomposition...
Lumbricillus is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Enchytraeidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: Lumbricillus aestuum (Stephenson...
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