Coralliodrilus rugosus is a species of clitellate oligochaete worm, first found in Belize, on the Caribbean side of Central America.[1] It is found in a range of sediments near the limits of saline groundwater, but never below tidal zones.[2]
| Coralliodrilus rugosus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Clade: | Sedentaria |
| Class: | Clitellata |
| Order: | Tubificida |
| Family: | Naididae |
| Genus: | Coralliodrilus |
| Species: | C. rugosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Coralliodrilus rugosus Erséus, 1990
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References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Reynoldson, Trefor B.; Coates, Kathryn A. (2012-12-06). Aquatic Oligochaete Biology V: Proceedings of the 5th Oligochaete Symposium, held in Tallinn, Estonia, 1991. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 102. ISBN 9789401108423.
Further reading
edit- 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.
- Marotta, Roberto, Marco Ferraguti, and Christer Erseus. "A phylogenetic analysis of Tubificinae and Limnodriloidinae (Annelida, Clitellata, Tubificidae) using sperm and somatic characters." Zoologica Scripta 32.3 (2003): 255-278.
- Erséus, Christer. "Sperm types and their use for a phylogenetic analysis of aquatic clitellates." Hydrobiologia 402 (1999): 225-237.
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