Coralliodrilus

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Coralliodrilus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Tubificida
Family: Naididae
Subfamily: Phallodrilinae
Genus: Coralliodrilus
Erséus, 1979
Species

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Coralliodrilus is a genus of clitellate oligochaete worms. [1] [2]

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Species

The World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following species in the genus Coralliodrilus: [3]

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References

  1. Erseus, C.; Wetzel, M. J.; Gustavsson, L. (2008). "ICZN rules—a farewell to Tubificidae (Annelida, Clitellata)". Zootaxa. 1744 (1): 66. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1744.1.7 . ISSN   1175-5334.
  2. Erseus, Christer (1990). "The marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the barrier reef ecosystems at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, and other parts of the Caribbean Sea, with descriptions of twenty-seven new species and revision of Heterodrilus, Thalassodrilides and Smithsonidrilus". Zoologica Scripta. 19 (3): 243–303. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x. ISSN   0300-3256. S2CID   84355292.
  3. "Coralliodrilus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 29 April 2020.

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