OLIGOCHAETA
(earth worms and freshwater worms)

OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Order 2 subtaxa 25 trophisms 7 references
Order 1 subtaxa 2 references
Order 4 subtaxa 9 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubclassOLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms)
ClassCLITELLATA (a class of annelids)
PhylumANNELIDA (segmented worms and leeches)
SuperphylumLOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OLIGOCHAETA (earth worms and freshwater worms)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
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Brinkhurst, R.O. 1971 *** A guide to the identification of Aquatic Oligochaeta ***(Superseded) Scientific Publications, No. 22, 2nd, revised edition, 55pp, Freshwater Biological Association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):

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