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

Tubifex Lamarck, 1816

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Tubifex ignotus (Stolc, 1886)
Tubifex kryptus Bulow, 1957
Tubifex montanus Kowalewski, 1919
Tubifex nerthus Michaelsen, 1908
Tubifex newaensis (Michaelsen, 1903)
Tubifex pescei (Dumnicka, 1981)
Tubifex pomoricus Timm, 1978
Tubifex smirnowi Lastockin, 1927
Tubifex tubifex (Müller, 1774)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: sludge worms sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Schlammröhrenwürmer

Literature

original description	Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta) supplement. International Review of Hydrobiology. 51(5): 727-742.
additional source	Eisen, G. (1879). Preliminary Report on Genera and Species of Tubificidae. Bih. K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 5(16):1-26 + 1 plate.
additional source	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
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.
additional source	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	Udekem, J. d'. (1855). Nouvelles classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 22(2): 533-557, 3 figs.
additional source	Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 16: 217-291, plates 1-4.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1965). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta II: Tubificidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 117 (4):117-172.
additional source	Udekem, J. d'. (1859). Nouvelle classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 31: 1-28.
additional source	Eisen, G. (1885). Oligochaetological researches. Report for the commisioner for 1883. 11 (for year 1883), appendix D, XX: p879-964 +Plates I-XIX.
identification resource	Hrabĕ, S. (1962). Oligochaeta limicola from Onega lake collected by Mr. BM Alexandrov. Publications de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université JE Purkyne, Brno. 435: 277-333.