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

Enchytraeus albidus Henle, 1837

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Enchytraeus*	Henle, 1837	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: white potworm; whiteworm 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: Topfwurm; Weißer Topfwurm

Literature

original description	Henle, F.G.J. (1837). Ueber Enchytraeus, eine neue Anneliden-Gattung. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin. 74-90.
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	Knöllner, F. H. (1935). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen über litorale und marine Oligochäten der Kieler Bucht. Zoologische Jahrbuecher (Systematik). 66: 425-512.
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.
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	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
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.
additional source	Marcus, Er. (1965). Naidomorpha aus brasilianischem Brackwasser. Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna. 4(2): 61-83.
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.
additional source	Stephenson, J. (1932). Oligochaeta. Part i. Microdrili (mainly Enchytraeidae). Discovery Reports Cambridge. 4: 233-264.
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.
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.
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.
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
additional source	Southern, R. (1906). Notes on the genus Enchytraeus, with description of a new species. Irish Naturalists. 15: 179-185.
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.
additional source	Jackson, A. (1931). The Oligochaeta of south-western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 17: 71-136.
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.
additional source	Friend, H. (1912). New british Oligochaets. The Zoologist. 16(852): 220-226.
additional source	Welch, P.S. (1923). New records of North American Enchytraeidae. Transactions of American Microscopical Society. 42(2): 91-94.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Galloway, T.W. (1911). The common fresh-water Oligocheta of the United States. Transactions of American Microscopical Society. 30(1): 285-317.
additional source	Michaelsen, W. (1913). Die Oligochaeten des Kaplandes. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik. 34(5-6): 473-556.
additional source	Michaelsen, W. (1921). Neue und wenig bekannte Oligochäten aus Skandinavischen sammlungen. Arkiv för zoologi. 13(19):1-25.
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. Enchytraeus albidus Henle, 1837. 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:137402

Dr. Emilia Rota. Enchytraeus albidus Henle, 1837. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/2243b298-488a-46b3-8a73-8cda0108e8c9