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Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862

137556  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137556)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 16: 217-291, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14253066
page(s): 248 [details] OpenAccess publication
Neotype , geounit Switzerland,  SMNH 8838, geounit...  
Holotype, geounit Switzerland [details]
Neotype SMNH 8838, geounit Switzerland [details]
Etymology named in honor of M. Hoffmeister  
Etymology named in honor of M. Hoffmeister [details]

Taxonomic remark Cryptic species with at least 10 genetically different species  
Taxonomic remark Cryptic species with at least 10 genetically different species [details]

Distribution upstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary  
Distribution upstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137556 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature

original description Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 16: 217-291, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14253066
page(s): 248 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Limnodrilus socialis Stephenson, 1912) Stephenson, J. (1912). On Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, and on a new species of Limnodrilus with distinctive characters. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 48(15): 285-303 + Plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41769296
page(s): 294 [details] 

original description (of Camptodrilus corallinus Eisen, 1879) Eisen, G. (1879). Preliminary Report on Genera and Species of Tubificidae. Bih. K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 5(16):1-26 + 1 plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14144800
page(s): 23 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Limnodrilus parvus Southern, 1909) Southern, Rowland. (1909). Contributions towards a monograph of the British and Irish Oligochaeta. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 27: 119-182 + plates VII-XI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34885013
page(s): 137 [details] 

original description (of Limnodrilus aurostriatus Southern, 1909) Southern, Rowland. (1909). Contributions towards a monograph of the British and Irish Oligochaeta. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 27: 119-182 + plates VII-XI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34885013
page(s): 136 [details] 

original description (of Limnodrilus lucasi Benham, 1903) Benham, W. B. (1903). On some new species of aquatic Oligochaeta from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2: pp. 202-232. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri divergens Marcus, 1942) Marcus, E. (1942). Sabre algumas Tubificidae do Brasil. Boletins da Faculdade de Philosophia. 6(6):153-228 + Plates I-XII.
page(s): 169 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Limnodrilus parvus biannulatus Lastočkin, 1927) Lastočkin, D. (1927). Oligochaeta limicola des Oka-Flusses. Arbeiten der Biologischen Oka-Station (Murom, Russland). 5(1): 5-36.
page(s): 18 [details] 

basis of record Erséus, C.; Healy, B.M. (2001). Oligochaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 231-234 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

basis of record Naidu, K. V. (1965). Some fresh-water Oligochaeta of Singapore. Bull. Natl. Mus. Singapore. 33(3): 13-21. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Naidu, K. V.; Srivastava, H. N. (1980). Some fresh-water oligochaeta of Nagpur, India. Hydrobiologia. 72(3): 261-271., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00005630 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Ohtaka, A.; Usman, R. (1997). Records of tubificid oligochaetes from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, with description of a new species of Aulodrilus Bretscher. Species diversity. 2(2): 145-154. [details] 

Identification resource

identification resource Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland. 3(8): 99-128., available online at https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300496/QL1_U7_1971_v3no8.pdf
page(s): 112 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

additional source Erséus, C.; Hsieh, H.-L. (1997). Records of Estuarine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from Taiwan. Species Diversity. 2:97-104. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lastočkin, Dmitrij Alexandrovich. (1921). Issledovanija po faune Ivanovo-Voznesenskoj gubernii, organizovannye selsko-hozjajstvennym fakultetom I.-V. P. I. letom 1920 goda. 2. Fauna Oligochaeta limicola rajona issledovanija. Izvestija Ivanovo- Voznesenskogo Politehničeskogo Instituta. 4: 70-77.
page(s): 75 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Pfannkuche, O. (1977). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen an naidomorphen Oligochaeten brackiger und Iimnischer Biotope. Dissertation, Universität Hamburg. 138pp. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Kasprzak, K. (1973). Notatki o faunie skąposzczetów (Oligochaeta) Polski, I [Notes on Oligochaeta fauna of Poland, I]. Fragmenta Faunistika. 18(21): 405-434., available online at http://rcin.org.pl/miiz/Content/43840/WA058_50692_P256-T18_Frag-Faun-Nr-21.pdf
page(s): 419 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Dieffenbach, O. (1886). Anatomische und systematische studien an Oligochaetae limicolae. I. Zur Anatomie von Lumbriculus variegatus; II. Zur Anatomie der Tubificiden; III. Systematische bemerkungen über Tubificiden; IV. Beobachtungen an Nais elinguis und lurida; V. Eine neue Pachydrilus art. Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde. 24: 65-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12821269
page(s): 89, 97 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Dzwillo, M. (1966). Untersuchungen über die Zusammensetzung der Tubificidenfauna im Bereich des Hamburger Hafens. Abh.Verh.naturw.Ver.Hamburg (N.F.). 11: 101-116.
page(s): 111 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Černosvitov, L. (1938). The oligochaeta. in: Washbourn, R. & Jones, R.F. Report of the Percy Sladen Expedition to Lake Huleh; a contribution to the study of the Fresh waters of Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2(11): 535-550., available online at https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.24335/page/535/mode/2up
page(s): 548 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Goretti, E.; Marcucci, C.; Di Veroli, A.; Fabrizi, A.; Gaino, E. (2014). The tubificids (Annelida, Oligochaeta) of Lake Trasimeno and Lake Piediluco in Central Italy, with a study of SEM morphology of some species. Turkish Journal of Zoology. 38: 334-341., available online at https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1308-40
page(s): 336 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71343
page(s): 252 [details] 

additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl. 2: 1-89.
page(s): 36 [details] 

additional source Wetzel, M.J. (1987). Limnodrilus tortilipenis, a new north american species of freshwater Tubificidae (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 100 (1):182-185. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Ferronnière, G. (1899). IIIe Contribution a l'Etude de la Faune de la Loire-Inferieure (Annelida oligochetes). Bull. Soc. sc. nat. Ouest. T. 9. fasc. III: p229-295 + 2 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5857541#page/341/mode/1up
page(s): 245 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Hagen, G. (1951). Vergleichende ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen der eulitoralen Oligochaetenfauna in Süsswasser-, Brackwasser- und Meeresgebieten Schleswig-Holsteins. Dissertation Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel.
page(s): 31 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1965). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta II: Tubificidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 117 (4):117-172.
page(s): 127 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Eisen, G. (1879). Preliminary Report on Genera and Species of Tubificidae. Bih. K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 5(16):1-26 + 1 plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14144800
page(s): 20 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Botea, F. (1983). Oligochètes souterraines de Cuba. Résultats des expéditions biospéologiques cubano-roumaines à Cuba. 4: 19-38. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. African Zoology. 2(2): 131-166.
page(s): 147 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 84.
page(s): 167 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Brinkhurst, R.O.; Cook, D.G. (1966). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta III: Lumbriculidae and additional notes and records of other families. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 118(1): 1-33.
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Černosvitov, L. (1939). VI. OLIGOCHAETA. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 1(1): 81-116.
page(s): 103 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Chen, C. (1940). Taxonomy and faunal relations of the limnitic Oligochaeta of China. Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Zool. 14: 1-131.
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, E. (1947). Naidids and tubificids from Brazil. Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montev. 2(44): 1-20.
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Friend, H. (1912). British Tubificidae. Journal of the Royal microscopical society. p265-293., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5455069
page(s): 270 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Hiltunen, J. K. (1967). Some oligochaetes from Lake Michigan. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 433-454.
page(s): 438 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype, geounit Switzerland [details]
Neotype SMNH 8838, geounit Switzerland [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology named in honor of M. Hoffmeister [details]

Taxonomic remark Cryptic species with at least 10 genetically different species [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution upstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary [details]

Habitat Normally in calm waters, but can tolerate rough waters. Infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary. [details]
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