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

Nais communis Piguet, 1906

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nais*	Muller, 1774	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Piguet, E. (1906). Observations sur les Naïdidées et révision systématique de quelques espèces de cette famille. Revue suisse de zoologie. 14: 185-315.
basis of record	Naidu, K. V.; Srivastava, H. N. (1980). Some fresh-water oligochaeta of Nagpur, India. Hydrobiologia. 72(3): 261-271.
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	Hagen, G. (1951). Vergleichende ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen der eulitoralen Oligochaetenfauna in Süsswasser-, Brackwasser- und Meeresgebieten Schleswig-Holsteins. Dissertation Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel.
additional source	Erséus, C.; Grimm, R. (2002). A new species of Ainudrilus (Tubiﬁcidae) from South Georgia, and other subantarctic freshwater oligochaetes. Hydrobiologia. 468:77-81.
additional source	Lastočkin, Dmitrij Alexandrovich. (1921). Issledovanija po faune Ivanovo-Voznesenskoj gubernii, organizovannye selsko-hozjajstvennym fakultetom I.-V. P. I. letom 1920 goda. 2. Fauna Oligochaeta limicola rajona issledovanija. Izvestija Ivanovo- Voznesenskogo Politehničeskogo Instituta. 4: 70-77.
additional source	Jelinek, H. (2011). Untersuchungen zur Systematik der Naididae D'Udekem, 1855 (Annelida, Clitellata, Oligochaeta). DIssertation Uiversity of Hamburg. 380pp + Appendix.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1964). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta. I. Naididae and Opistocytidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 116:195-230.
additional source	Al-Abbad, M.Y.M. (2012). New Records of Twelve species of Oligochaeta (Naididae and Aeolosomatidae) from the Southern Iraqi Marshes, Iraq. Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences. 5(2):105-111.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O.; Kathman, R.D. (1983). A contribution to the taxonomy of the Naididae (Oligochaeta) of North America. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 61(10): 2307-2312.
additional source	Yamaguchi, H. (1953). Studies on the Aquatic Oligochaeta of Japan: Ⅵ. A Systematic Report, with Some Remarks on the Classification and Phylogeny of the Oligochaeta (With 1 Plate, 5 Tables and 25 Text-figures). Journal of the Faculty of Science Hokkaido University, Series V. Zoology. 11(2): 277-342.
additional source	Chen, C. (1940). Taxonomy and faunal relations of the limnitic Oligochaeta of China. Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Zool. 14: 1-131.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. African Zoology. 2(2): 131-166.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 84.

Genbank

Citation

Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Nais communis Piguet, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137480

Tarmo Timm. Nais communis Piguet, 1906. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/56bf16b7-9f7d-40bd-86ac-48924e4891f6