Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Oligochaeta > Subclass Tubificata > Order Tubificida > Suborder Tubificina > Superfamily Tubificoidea > Family Naididae > Subfamily Rhyacodrilinae

Heterodrilus Pierantoni, 1902

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Heterodrilus arenicolus Pierantoni, 1902
Heterodrilus subtilis (Pierantoni, 1917)

Literature

original description	Pierantoni, U. (1902). Due nuovi generi di Oligocheti marini rinvenuti nel Golfo di Napoli. Boll. Soc. Nat. Napoli. 16: 113-117.
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	Erséus, C. (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.
taxonomy source	Erséus, C. (1981). Taxonomic revision of the marine genus Heterodrilus Pierantoni (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae). Zoologica Scripta. 10(2): 111-132.
taxonomy source	Mejlon, E.; De Wit, P.; Matamoros, L.; Erséus, C. (2015). DNA-based phylogeny of the marine genus Heterodrilus (Annelida, Clitellata, Naididae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 53(3): 194-199.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Heterodrilus Pierantoni, 1902. 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:137382