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Enchytraeus albidus Henle, 1837

137402  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137402)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Clitellata (Class)
  5. Oligochaeta (Subclass)
  6. Enchytraeida (Order)
  7. Enchytraeidae (Family)
  8. Enchytraeus (Genus)
  9. Enchytraeus albidus (Species)
accepted
Species
Enchytraeus albidus pellucidus Friend, 1913 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Enchytraeus krumbachi (Cejka, 1913) · unaccepted (synonym)
Enchytraeus pellucidus Friend, 1899 · uncertain > nomen dubium (junior primary homonym to E....)  
junior primary homonym to E. pellucidus Vejdovsky, 1877
Enchytraeus sordidus Levinsen, 1884 · unaccepted (unassessed)

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  1. Subspecies Enchytraeus albidus pellucidus Friend, 1913 accepted as Enchytraeus albidus Henle, 1837 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
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Henle, F.G.J. (1837). Ueber Enchytraeus, eine neue Anneliden-Gattung. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin. 74-90., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14168147 [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian, including Cobscook Bay.  
Distribution Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian, including Cobscook Bay. [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Enchytraeus albidus Henle, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137402 on 2025-03-29
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Erséus, Christer
2005-07-18 12:31:08Z
checked
Timm, Tarmo

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Nomenclature

original description Henle, F.G.J. (1837). Ueber Enchytraeus, eine neue Anneliden-Gattung. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin. 74-90., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14168147 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Archienchytraeus albimaris Obnorsky, 1895) Obnorsky. (1895). Khanatomie i systematikye Olighokhet byelagho moryo [Ueber die anatomie und Systematik der Oligochäten des Weisses Meeres]. Compt. r. des séances de la Soc. Imp. Nat. St. Petersbourg. 6(11): 24pp. [details] 

original description (of Litorea krumbachi Cejka, 1913) Cejka, B. (1913). Litorea krumbachi n. spec. n. gen.–Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der Enchytraeiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 17(4): 145-151., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/ZoologischerAnzeiger_42_0145-0151.pdf [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Neoenchytraeus vejdovskyi Eisen, 1878) 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): 75 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Neoenchytraeus stuxbergii Eisen, 1878) 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): 75 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Enchytraeus pellucidus Friend, 1899) Friend, Hilderic. (1899). New British annelids. The Zoologist. (Series 4) 3: 262-265., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39813790 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Halodrillus littoralis Verrill, 1873) Verrill, A. E. (1873). XVIII. Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound and the adjacent waters, with an account of the physical characters of the region. Report on the condition of the sea fisheries of the south coast of New England [later becomes Reports of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries]. 1: 295-778 pls. 1-38., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12087501
page(s): 329 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Enchytraeus humicultor Vejdovský, 1879) Vejdovský, F. (1879). Beiträge zur vergleichenden Morphologhie der Anneliden. I.Monographie der Enchytraeiden. Verlag von F. Tempsky, Prag. 62pp + 14 Plates., available online at https://ia800304.us.archive.org/32/items/beitrgezurverg00vejd/beitrgezurverg00vejd.pdf [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Enchytraeus constrictus Backlund, 1947) Backlund, H.O. (1947). Swedish Enchytraeida II. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, N.F. 58: 3–31. [details] 

original description (of Enchytraeus fucorum 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): 238 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Enchytraeus sordidus 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): 238 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Archenchytraeus möbii Michaelsen, 1885) Michaelsen, W. (1885). Vorläufige Mittheilungen über Archenchytraeus Möbii. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 8 (193):237-239., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9725920
page(s): 237 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Enchytraeus humicultor similis Ude, 1896) Ude, H. (1896). Enchytraeiden. Ergebnisse der Hamburgischen Magalhaensische Sammelreise. 3: 1-43 + 1 Plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140103
page(s): 27 [details] 

basis of record Erséus, C.; Healy, B.M. (2001). Oligochaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 231-234 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Identification resource

identification resource Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Introduced species) Frenot, Y.; Chown, S. L.; Whinam, J.; Selkirk, P. M.; Convey, P.; Skotnicki, M.; Bergstrom, D. M. (2005). Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications. Biological Reviews. 80(1): 45-72., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1464793104006542 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (RAS) Frenot, Y.; Chown, S. L.; Whinam, J.; Selkirk, P. M.; Convey, P.; Skotnicki, M.; Bergstrom, D. M. (2005). Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications. Biological Reviews. 80(1): 45-72., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1464793104006542 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Bermuda) Lasserre, P.; Erseus, C. (1976). Oligochètes marins des Bermudes. Nouvelles espèces et remarques sur la distribution géographique de quelques Tubificidae et Enchytraeidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 17: 447-462 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] 

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Nielsen, C. O.; Christensen, B. (1959). The Enchytraeidae: critical revision and taxonomy of European species (Studies on Enchytraeidae VII). Natura Jutlandica. 8-9: 1-160.
page(s): 91 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Jackson, A. (1931). The Oligochaeta of south-western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 17: 71-136. [details] 

additional source Marcus, Er. (1965). Naidomorpha aus brasilianischem Brackwasser. Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna. 4(2): 61-83., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01650526509360380 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Michaelsen, W. (1913). Die Oligochaeten des Kaplandes. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik. 34(5-6): 473-556., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9988962
page(s): 480 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Shurova, N. M. (1979). Enchytraeids (Oligochaeta) of the far-east seas of the USSR. In: Studies on the pelagic and groundinhabiting organisms of the Far East seas. Vladivostok. 75-89. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Stirrup, H. H. (1913). A descriptive study of an oligochaete worm of the family Enchytraeidae; with an appendix on certain commensal protozoa. In Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 2: 300-321. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Knöllner, F. H. (1935). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen über litorale und marine Oligochäten der Kieler Bucht. Zoologische Jahrbuecher (Systematik). 66: 425-512. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 449 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1881 (for year 1880)). Materialia Ad Zoographiam Ponticam Comparatam. Fasciculum III. Vermes [first part of 3]. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody). 55(4): 213-363 + 2 Plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34420731
page(s): 323 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Southern, Rowland. (1909). Contributions towards a monograph of the British and Irish Oligochaeta. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 27: 119-182 + plates VII-XI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34885013
page(s): 156 [details] 

additional source Stephenson, J. (1932). Oligochaeta. Part i. Microdrili (mainly Enchytraeidae). Discovery Reports Cambridge. 4: 233-264., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5569606#page/254/mode/1up
page(s): 257 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lasserre, P. (1971). The marine Enchytraeidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta) of the eastern coast of North America with notes on their geographical distribution and habitat. Biol.Bull. 140:440-460., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/146435.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lasserre, P.; Erseus, C. (1976). Oligochètes marins des Bermudes. Nouvelles espèces et remarques sur la distribution géographique de quelques Tubificidae et Enchytraeidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 17: 447-462 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Michaelsen, W. (1921). Neue und wenig bekannte Oligochäten aus Skandinavischen sammlungen. Arkiv för zoologi. 13(19):1-25., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6397274
page(s): 3 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Ude, H. (1901). Die arktischen Enchyträiden und Lumbriciden, sowie die geographische Verbreitung dieser Familien. Fauna arctica : eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 2(1): 1-34 + Plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2120475
page(s): 3, 12 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Galloway, T.W. (1911). The common fresh-water Oligocheta of the United States. Transactions of American Microscopical Society. 30(1): 285-317., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27094906
page(s): 309 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Bell, A.W. (1958). The Anatomy of the Oligochaete Enchytraeus albidus, with a Key to the Species of the Genus Enchytraeus. American Museum Novitates. 1902: 1-13. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Friend, H. (1912). New british Oligochaets. The Zoologist. 16(852): 220-226., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40959318
page(s): 224 [details] 

additional source Southern, R. (1906). Notes on the genus Enchytraeus, with description of a new species. Irish Naturalists. 15: 179-185., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/25522917
page(s): 184 [details] 

additional source Welch, P.S. (1923). New records of North American Enchytraeidae. Transactions of American Microscopical Society. 42(2): 91-94., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42937795
page(s): 94 [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian, including Cobscook Bay. [details]

Habitat Found in the intertidal zone; prefers mud and algae covered substrate. [details]
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LanguageName 
English whitewormwhite potworm  [details]
German Weißer TopfwurmTopfwurm  [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Enchytraeus krumbachi (Cejka, 1913))
To Barcode of Life (91 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (111 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enchytraeus albidus) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enchytraeus krumbachi) (from synonym Enchytraeus krumbachi (Cejka, 1913))
To GenBank (2280 nucleotides; 152 proteins) 
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Litorea krumbachi Cejka, 1913)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Enchytraeus krumbachi (Cejka, 1913))
To PESI 
To ITIS
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