Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Order Enchytraeida > Family Enchytraeidae

Grania Southern, 1913

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Grania aquitana Rota & Erséus, 2003
Grania atlantica Coates & Erséus, 1985
Grania macrochaeta (Pierantoni, 1901)
Grania maricola Southern, 1913
Grania mira Locke & Coates, 1998
Grania occulta De Wit & Erséus, 2010
Grania ovitheca Erséus, 1977
Grania papillinasus Rota & Erséus, 2003
Grania postclitellochaeta (Knöllner, 1935)
Grania pusilla Erséus, 1974
Grania roscoffensis Lasserre, 1967
Grania torosa Rota & Erséus, 2003
Grania variochaeta Erséus & Lasserre, 1976
Grania vikinga Rota & Erséus, 2003

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zanddraadjes

Literature

original description	Southern, R. (1913). Clare Island Survey. Part 48: Oligochaeta. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (B). pp 1–14.
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
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.
additional source	De Wit, P.; Rota, E.; Erséus, C. (2011). Phylogeny and character evolution in Grania (Annelida, Clitellata). Zoologica Scripta. 40(5): 509-519.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	De Wit, P. (2010). Systematics of Grania (Clitellata:Enchytraeidae), an interstitial annelid taxon. thesis, University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Zoology, Sweden.
status source	Prantoni, A.; Lana, P. C.; Erséus, C. (2017). Global checklist of species of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) with remarks on their geographic distribution. European Journal of Taxonomy. 391:1-44.
taxonomy source	Lasserre, P. (1966). Oligochetes marins des cotes de France. I. Bassin D'Arcachon: Systematique. Cahiers de Biologie marine. 7: 295-317.
identification resource	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. Synopses of the British Fauna. 21: 1-127.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Grania Southern, 1913. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137349