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Mesenchytraeus Eisen, 1878

177403  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177403)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Clitellata (Class)
  5. Oligochaeta (Subclass)
  6. Enchytraeida (Order)
  7. Enchytraeidae (Family)
  8. Mesenchytraeus (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Echinodrilus Vaillant, 1868 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Mesenchytraeus affinis Michaelsen, 1901
  2. Species Mesenchytraeus altus Welch, 1917
  3. Species Mesenchytraeus americanus Bell, 1942
  4. Species Mesenchytraeus anisodiverticulus Shen, Chen & Xie, 2012
  5. Species Mesenchytraeus antaeus Rota & Brinkhurst, 2000
  6. Species Mesenchytraeus arcticus Bell, 1962
  7. Species Mesenchytraeus argentatus Nurminen, 1973
  8. Species Mesenchytraeus armatus (Levinsen, 1884)
  9. Species Mesenchytraeus asiaticus Eisen, 1904
  10. Species Mesenchytraeus asymmetriauritus J. Chen & Xie, 2015
  11. Species Mesenchytraeus atriophorus Altman, 1936
  12. Species Mesenchytraeus beringensis Eisen, 1904
  13. Species Mesenchytraeus beumeri (Michaelsen, 1886)
  14. Species Mesenchytraeus brasiliensis Cognetti, 1900
  15. Species Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901
  16. Species Mesenchytraeus calyx Dózsa-Farkas, Feldföldi & Y. Hong, 2015
  17. Species Mesenchytraeus cejkai Cernosvitov, 1937
  18. Species Mesenchytraeus celticus Southern, 1909
  19. Species Mesenchytraeus chaunus Piper, Maclean & Christensen, 1982
  20. Species Mesenchytraeus chromophorus Altman, 1936
  21. Species Mesenchytraeus crenobius Timm, 1994
  22. Species Mesenchytraeus diplobulbosus Bell, 1949
  23. Species Mesenchytraeus diverticulatus Piper, Maclean & Christensen, 1982
  24. Species Mesenchytraeus eastwoodi Eisen, 1904
  25. Species Mesenchytraeus eiseni Bretscher, 1900
  26. Species Mesenchytraeus eltoni Stephenson, 1925
  27. Species Mesenchytraeus falciformis Eisen, 1878
  28. Species Mesenchytraeus flavidus Michaelsen, 1887
  29. Species Mesenchytraeus flavus (Levinsen, 1884)
  30. Species Mesenchytraeus fontinalis Eisen, 1904
  31. Species Mesenchytraeus franciscanus Eisen, 1904
  32. Species Mesenchytraeus fuscus Eisen, 1904
  33. Species Mesenchytraeus gaudens Cognetti de Martiis, 1903
  34. Species Mesenchytraeus gelidus Welch, 1916
  35. Species Mesenchytraeus gigachaetus Xie, 2012
  36. Species Mesenchytraeus glandulosus (Levinsen, 1884)
  37. Species Mesenchytraeus grandis Eisen, 1904
  38. Species Mesenchytraeus grebnizkyi Michaelsen, 1901
  39. Species Mesenchytraeus groenlandicus Nielsen & Christensen, 1959
  40. Species Mesenchytraeus hamiltoni Healy, 1996
  41. Species Mesenchytraeus harrimani Eisen, 1904
  42. Species Mesenchytraeus hydrius Welch, 1919
  43. Species Mesenchytraeus jeombongensis Dózsa-Farkas, Nagy, Felföldi & Hong, 2025
  44. Species Mesenchytraeus johanseni Welch, 1919
  45. Species Mesenchytraeus jungsaihoi Dózsa-Farkas, Felföldi, Nagy & Hong, 2018
  46. Species Mesenchytraeus kincaidi Eisen, 1904
  47. Species Mesenchytraeus kontrimavichusi Piper, Maclean & Christensen, 1982
  48. Species Mesenchytraeus konyamensis Michaelsen, 1916
  49. Species Mesenchytraeus kuehnelti Dózsa-Farkas, 1991
  50. Species Mesenchytraeus kuril Healy & Timm, 2000
  51. Species Mesenchytraeus liberothecus Zhang, Lu & Xie, 2018
  52. Species Mesenchytraeus longidiverticulatus Felföldi, Dózsa-Farkas, Nagy & Hong, 2020
  53. Species Mesenchytraeus longiductus Christensen & Dózsa-Farkas, 2012
  54. Species Mesenchytraeus lusitanicus Collado, Martínez-Ansemil & Giani, 1993
  55. Species Mesenchytraeus macnabi Bell, 1942
  56. Species Mesenchytraeus maculatus Eisen, 1904
  57. Species Mesenchytraeus magnus Altman, 1936
  58. Species Mesenchytraeus melanocephalus Christensen & Dózsa-Farkas, 1999
  59. Species Mesenchytraeus michaelseni Nielsen & Christensen, 1959
  60. Species Mesenchytraeus minimus Altman, 1936
  61. Species Mesenchytraeus mirabilis Eisen, 1878
  62. Species Mesenchytraeus monochaetus Bretscher, 1900
  63. Species Mesenchytraeus monodiverticulus Shen, Chen & Xie, 2012
  64. Species Mesenchytraeus monothecatus Bell, 1945
  65. Species Mesenchytraeus montanus Bretscher, 1899
  66. Species Mesenchytraeus multispinus (Grube, 1851)
  67. Species Mesenchytraeus nanus Eisen, 1904
  68. Species Mesenchytraeus nivalis Torii, 2015
  69. Species Mesenchytraeus obscurus Eisen, 1904
  70. Species Mesenchytraeus ogloblini Černosvitov, 1928
  71. Species Mesenchytraeus orcae Eisen, 1904
  72. Species Mesenchytraeus pedatus Eisen, 1904
  73. Species Mesenchytraeus pelicensis Issel, 1905
  74. Species Mesenchytraeus penicillus Eisen, 1904
  75. Species Mesenchytraeus primaevus Eisen, 1878
  76. Species Mesenchytraeus racemosus Dózsa-Farkas, Nagy, Felföldi & Hong, 2025
  77. Species Mesenchytraeus rhithralis Healy & Fend, 2002
  78. Species Mesenchytraeus sanguineus Nielsen & Christensen, 1959
  79. Species Mesenchytraeus setchelli Eisen, 1904
  80. Species Mesenchytraeus solifugus (Emery, 1898)
  81. Species Mesenchytraeus spermatoglomeratus Zhang, Lu & Xie, 2018
  82. Species Mesenchytraeus straminicolus Rota, 1995
  83. Species Mesenchytraeus sveni Christensen & Dózsa-Farkas, 1999
  84. Species Mesenchytraeus svetae Piper, Maclean & Christensen, 1982
  85. Species Mesenchytraeus tetrapodus Timm, 1978
  86. Species Mesenchytraeus tigrina Bretscher, 1902
  87. Species Mesenchytraeus torbeni Christensen & Dózsa-Farkas, 1999
  88. Species Mesenchytraeus trisetosus Bretscher, 1903
  89. Species Mesenchytraeus tundrus Piper, Maclean & Christensen, 1982
  90. Species Mesenchytraeus unalaskae Eisen, 1904
  91. Species Mesenchytraeus variabilis Cejka, 1914
  92. Species Mesenchytraeus vegae Eisen, 1904
  93. Species Mesenchytraeus viivi Timm, 1978
  94. Species Mesenchytraeus vshivkovae Timm, 1994
  95. Species Mesenchytraeus eiseni Cejka, 1914 accepted as Mesenchytraeus cejkai Cernosvitov, 1937 (homonym (with M. eiseni Bretscher))
  96. Species Mesenchytraeus fenestratus (Eisen, 1878) accepted as Neoenchytraeus fenestratus Eisen, 1878
  97. Species Mesenchytraeus franzi Nurminen, 1977 accepted as Cognettia clarae Bauer, 1993 accepted as Euenchytraeus clarae (Bauer, 1993)
  98. Species Mesenchytraeus harperi Stephenson, 1926 accepted as Mesenchytraeus glandulosus (Levinsen, 1884) (synonym)
  99. Species Mesenchytraeus megachaetus Shen, Chen & Xie, 2011 accepted as Mesenchytraeus gigachaetus Xie, 2012 (homonym)
  100. Species Mesenchytraeus megachaetus Bretscher, 1901 accepted as Mesenchytraeus armatus (Levinsen, 1884) (Synonym)
  101. Species Mesenchytraeus mencli Vejdovský, 1905 accepted as Mesenchytraeus gaudens Cognetti de Martiis, 1903
  102. Species Mesenchytraeus oligosetosus Friend, 1913 accepted as Mesenchytraeus armatus (Levinsen, 1884)
  103. Species Mesenchytraeus parvus Ditlevsen, 1904 accepted as Mesenchytraeus gaudens Cognetti de Martiis, 1903 (synonym)
  104. Species Mesenchytraeus rhabdogenus Issel, 1905 accepted as Mesenchytraeus beumeri (Michaelsen, 1886) (synonym)
  105. Species Mesenchytraeus setosus Michaelsen, 1888 accepted as Mesenchytraeus armatus (Levinsen, 1884)
  106. Species Mesenchytraeus valvifer Backlund, 1946 accepted as Mesenchytraeus beumeri (Michaelsen, 1886) (synonym)
  107. Species Mesenchytraeus alpinus Bretscher, 1901 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, species dubia)
  108. Species Mesenchytraeus amoeboideus Bretscher, 1901 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, described as juvenile)
  109. Species Mesenchytraeus bisetosus Bretscher, 1901 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, species dubia)
  110. Species Mesenchytraeus laojunensis Chen, Jiang & Xie, 2016 (uncertain > unassessed)
  111. Species Mesenchytraeus moravicus Vejdovsky, 1905 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  112. Species Mesenchytraeus nivus J. Moore, 1899 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Eisen, G. (1878). Redogörelse för Oligochaeter samlade under de Svenska expeditionerna till Arktiska trakter. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 35(3): 63-79., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32240135
page(s): 67 [details] OpenAccess publication
Nomenclature Piper et al (1982) regard Mesenchytreaus primaevus as the type-taxon of the genus  
Nomenclature Piper et al (1982) regard Mesenchytreaus primaevus as the type-taxon of the genus [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Mesenchytraeus Eisen, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177403 on 2025-03-30
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2005-07-26 07:33:21Z
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Timm, Tarmo
2018-02-21 09:07:00Z
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Reynolds, John W.
2020-12-19 07:54:27Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2022-11-19 09:48:29Z
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van Haaren, Ton
2022-11-27 14:07:24Z
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van Haaren, Ton

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Nomenclature

original description Eisen, G. (1878). Redogörelse för Oligochaeter samlade under de Svenska expeditionerna till Arktiska trakter. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 35(3): 63-79., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32240135
page(s): 67 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Melanenchytraeus Emery, 1898) Emery, C. (1898). Diagnosi di un nuovi genere e vuova specie di annelidi della famiglia degli Enchytraeidae. Atti R. Accademei Lincei. 5: 100-111. [details] 

original description (of Analycus Levinsen, 1884) Levinsen, G.M.R. (1884 (for year 1883)). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn. 45(1883): 95-354 + plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16065206
page(s): 235 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Echinodrilus Vaillant, 1868) Vaillant, L. (1868). Note sur l'anatomie de deux espèces du genre Perichaeta et essai de classification des Annélides lombricines. Annls. Sci. nat. 10: 225-256 + Plate X., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29123786
page(s): 249, 254 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Timm,. T. (2004). Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS2. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

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): 314 [details] 

additional source Černosvitov, L. (1937). System der Enchytraeiden. Bull Ass. Russe Rech. Prague Sci. Volume: 5 Issue: (34): 263-295. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 265 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Eisen, G.A. (1879). On the Oligochaeta collected during the swedish expeditions to the arctic regions in the years 1870, 1875 and 1876. Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar. 15(7): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33813410
page(s): 10-11; note: As Enchytraeus (mesenchytraeus) n. [details] 

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Piper et al (1982) regard Mesenchytreaus primaevus as the type-taxon of the genus [details]
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