Enchitreid ( lat. Enchytraeidae ) is a family of low-chained worms . They look like small earthworms that live in soil saturated with organic matter or in the marine environment. The peculiar kind of dark-colored oligochaeta Mesenchytraeus solifugus is known as the “ice worm” ( English ice worm ), as it inhabits mountain glaciers , individuals of this species die at a temperature of several degrees above zero. The most famous enhytreid species is Enchytraeus buchholzi , which has received commercial use as food for aquarium fish.
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 Enchytraeus albidus | ||||||||||||
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| Enchytraeidae Vejdovský , 1879 |
Classification
The family includes childbirth: [1]
- Achaeta Vejdovský, 1878
- Archienchytraeus Eisen, 1878 ( nomen dubium )
- Cernosvitoviella Nielsen & Christensen, 1959
- Christensenidrilus Dózsa-Farkas & Convey, 1998 (= Christensenia Dózsa-Farkas & Convey, 1997 ( non Brinck 1945) )
- Cognettia Nielsen & Christensen, 1959
- Enchytraeina Bülow, 1957
- Enchytraeus
- Epitelphusa Drago, 1887
- Fridericia Michaelsen, 1889
- Grania
- Hemifridericia Nielsen & Christensen, 1949
- Henlea Michaelsen, 1889 (= Henleanella )
- Lumbricillus Ørsted , 1844 (= Enchytraeoides, Pachydrilus )
- Marionina Michaelsen in Pfeffer, 1890 (= Marionia Michaelsen, 1889 ( non Vayssière, 1877: preoccupied ) , Michaelsena, Parenchytraeus )
- Mesenchytraeus
- Neoenchytraeus Eisen, 1878
- Randidrilus Coates & Erséus, 1985
- Stephensoniella Cernosvitov, 1934
Notes
- ↑ Enhitreid family (English) in the World Register of Marine Species .