''Inanidrilus reginae'' is a
species
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of
clitellate oligochaete worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always).
Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wor ...
in the family
Naididae.
[ It was first found in ]Belize
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, on the Caribbean
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side of Central America
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. It lives in subtidal sand with seagrass.
References
Further reading
*Nylander, Johan AA, Christer Erséus, and Mari Källersjö. "A test of monophyly of the gutless Phallodrilinae (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) and the use of a 573‐bp region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene in analysis of annelid phylogeny." Zoologica Scripta 28.3‐4 (1999): 305-313.
*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.
*Giere, Olav, et al. "A comparative structural study on bacterial symbioses of Caribbean gutless Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta)." Acta zoologica 76.4 (1995): 281-290.
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reginae
Invertebrates of Central America
Fauna of the Caribbean
Animals described in 1990
Taxa named by Christer Erséus
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