Subtaxon | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
No of interactions |
No of references |
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Order | 2 subtaxa | 25 trophisms | 7 references | ||||
Order | 1 subtaxa | 2 references | |||||
Order | 4 subtaxa | 9 trophisms |
Subclass | OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms) |
Class | CLITELLATA (a class of annelids) |
Phylum | ANNELIDA (segmented worms and leeches) |
Superphylum | LOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives) |
Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
Life | BIOTA (living things) |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms) |
Handling & Magnification | Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Brinkhurst, R.O. | 1982 | British and other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes | Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 21, 127pp, The Linnean Society of London | |
Sweeney, P. | A Key to Irish Freshwater Oligochaetes | apps.biodiversityireland.ie/OligochaeteIdKey/key.php | ||
() | Worsfold, T. | 2003 | Introduction to Oligochaetes | 22pp |
Freshwater | ||||
Brinkhurst, R.O. | 1971 | *** A guide to the identification of Aquatic Oligochaeta ***(Superseded) | Scientific Publications, No. 22, 2nd, revised edition, 55pp, Freshwater Biological Association | |
() | Mellanby, H. | 1953 | Animal Life in Fresh Water - A Guide to British Fresh-water Invertebrates | 296pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd. |
Marine | ||||
Brinkhurst, R.O. | 1971 | A guide to the identification of Aquatic Oligochaeta | Scientific Publications, No. 22, 2nd, revised edition, 55pp, Freshwater Biological Association |
OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms):
BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 196 images of OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms) |
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