WoRMS taxon details
Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller, 1774)
177538 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177538)
accepted
Species
Lumbriculus kareliensis Popčhenko, 1976 · unaccepted
Lumbriculus limosus Leidy, 1850 · unaccepted
Lumbriculus variegatus typica Cook, 1966 · unaccepted
Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774 · unaccepted (Synonym)
Nais variegata Schweigger, 1820 · unaccepted
Saenuris variegata Hoffmeister, 1843 · unaccepted
marine
(of Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. <em>Havniæ et Lipsiæ.</em> Vol. 1, Pars Ima: 1-136 [1773]; Pars Altera: 1-72 + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig), Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2024). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177538 on 2024-04-24
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original description
(of Saenuris variegata Hoffmeister, 1843) Hoffmeister, W. (1843). Beitrag zur Kenntnis deutscher Landanneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 9(1): 183-198., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13703214 [details]
original description (of Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. <em>Havniæ et Lipsiæ.</em> Vol. 1, Pars Ima: 1-136 [1773]; Pars Altera: 1-72 + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig), Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
original description (of Lumbriculus kareliensis Popčhenko, 1976) Popchenko, V. I. (1976). Worms of the genus Lumbriculus Grube (Oligochaeta, Lumbriculidae) from water bodies of Karelia. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 55: 1617-1626. [details]
original description (of Lumbriculus limosus Leidy, 1850) Leidy, J. (1850). Descriptions of some American Annelida abranchia. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philladelphia.</em> Vol 2 (2): 43-50 + Plate II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35730908
page(s): 49 [details]
original description (of Nais variegata Schweigger, 1820) Schweigger, A. F. (1820). Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der skelettlosen ungegliederten Thiere. <em>Leipzig, Im Verlag der Dyk'schen Buchhandlung.</em> 1-802., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39152641
page(s): 590 [details]
original description (of Lumbriculus variegatus typica Cook, 1966) Brinkhurst, R.O.; Cook, D.G. (1966). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta III: Lumbriculidae and additional notes and records of other families. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 118(1): 1-33.
page(s): 11; note: In Introduction (p.1) it is written that 'All new specific names and emmendations of definitions within the Lumbriculidae proposed in this paper should be attributed to the junior author, Mr. David G....
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additional source Piguet, E. (1919). Wasserbewohnende Oligochaeten der nord-schwedischen Hochgebirge. <em>Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lappland.</em> 4(7): 779-804.
page(s): 795 [details]
additional source Hrabě, S. (1935). Oligohety ozera Issyk-Kul. [Die Oligochaeten des Issykkulsees]. [The oligochaetes of Lake Issyk-Kul]. <em>Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Kirgizskoj kompleksnoj expedicii.</em> 3: 73–85.
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dieffenbach, O. (1886). Anatomische und systematische studien an Oligochaetae limicolae. I. Zur Anatomie von Lumbriculus variegatus; II. Zur Anatomie der Tubificiden; III. Systematische bemerkungen über Tubificiden; IV. Beobachtungen an Nais elinguis und lurida; V. Eine neue Pachydrilus art. <em>Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde.</em> 24: 65-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12821269
page(s): 65 [details]
additional source Eisen, G. (1872). Om nagra arktiska Oligochaeter. <em>Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar.</em> 29(1): 119-124 + Plate 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59627609
page(s): 122 [details]
additional source Hesse, R. (1894). Die Geslechtsorgane von Lumbriculus variegatus Grube. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 58: 355-363 + Plate XXII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43265093 [details]
additional source Timm, T.; Erséus, C.; Lundberg, S. (1996). New and unusual records of freshwater oligochaeta from the Scandinavian Peninsula. <em>Nordic Journal of Freshwater Research.</em> 72:15-29., available online at https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/48949
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Timm,. T. (2004). Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS2. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. <em>[Book].</em> 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71343
page(s): 214 [details]
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. <em>[Book chapter].</em> 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. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ferronnière, G. (1899). IIIe Contribution a l'Etude de la Faune de la Loire-Inferieure (Annelida oligochetes). <em>Bull. Soc. sc. nat. Ouest.</em> T. 9. fasc. III: p229-295 + 2 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5857541#page/341/mode/1up
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Grube, E. (1844). Über den Lumbricus variegatus Müller's und ihm verwandte Anneliden. <em>Arch. Naturgesch.</em> 10: 198-216. [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. <em>African Zoology.</em> 2(2): 131-166.
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. <em>Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci.</em> 84.
page(s): 237 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Udekem, J. d'. (1859). Nouvelle classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.</em> 31: 1-28., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16207584
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Friend, H. (1912). Some Annelids of the Thames Valley. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 32(213): 95-106.
page(s): 99 [details]
additional source Rodriguez, P. (1988). Sur certaines espèces de Lumbriculidae (Annelida : Oligochaeta) du nord de la péninsule ibérique. <em>Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology.</em> 24(3): 203-211., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/1988018 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. <em>Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland.</em> 3(8): 99-128., available online at https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300496/QL1_U7_1971_v3no8.pdf
page(s): 106 [details]
additional source Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 16: 217-291, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14253066
page(s): 255 [details]
additional source Hrabĕ, S. (1939). Vodni Oligochaeta z Vysokych Tater. <em>Věst. Česk. Zool. Spol.</em> 6-7: 209-236., available online at http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/knav/view/uuid:6b9eee0f-d5cf-4e7b-bb7b-7919f93e3889?page=uuid:c2b21a7f-9064-4405-afd5-1cb9f5120a12
page(s): 229 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Michaelsen, W. (1929). Oligochaten der Kamtschatka-Expedition 1908-1909. <em>Annu Mus Zool Leningrad.</em> 30: 315-329. [details]
additional source Eisen, G.A. (1879). On the Oligochaeta collected during the swedish expeditions to the arctic regions in the years 1870, 1875 and 1876. <em>Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar.</em> 15(7): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33813410
page(s): 9 [details]
status source Gustafsson, D. R.; Price, D. A.; Erséus, C. (2009). Genetic variation in the popular lab worm Lumbriculus variegatus (Annelida: Clitellata: Lumbriculidae) reveals cryptic speciation. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 51(2): 182-189., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790308005939
page(s): 187; note: reports 3 clades, including 2 co-occurring clades in Sweden they regard as separate species, unknown which if either was Müller's (1774) species. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. <em>Havniæ et Lipsiæ.</em> Vol. 1, Pars Ima: 1-136 [1773]; Pars Altera: 1-72 + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig), Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 26; note: Vol 1, Pars altera [details]
original description (of Lumbriculus kareliensis Popčhenko, 1976) Popchenko, V. I. (1976). Worms of the genus Lumbriculus Grube (Oligochaeta, Lumbriculidae) from water bodies of Karelia. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 55: 1617-1626. [details]
original description (of Lumbriculus limosus Leidy, 1850) Leidy, J. (1850). Descriptions of some American Annelida abranchia. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philladelphia.</em> Vol 2 (2): 43-50 + Plate II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35730908
page(s): 49 [details]
original description (of Nais variegata Schweigger, 1820) Schweigger, A. F. (1820). Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der skelettlosen ungegliederten Thiere. <em>Leipzig, Im Verlag der Dyk'schen Buchhandlung.</em> 1-802., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39152641
page(s): 590 [details]
original description (of Lumbriculus variegatus typica Cook, 1966) Brinkhurst, R.O.; Cook, D.G. (1966). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta III: Lumbriculidae and additional notes and records of other families. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 118(1): 1-33.
page(s): 11; note: In Introduction (p.1) it is written that 'All new specific names and emmendations of definitions within the Lumbriculidae proposed in this paper should be attributed to the junior author, Mr. David G....
In Introduction (p.1) it is written that 'All new specific names and emmendations of definitions within the Lumbriculidae proposed in this paper should be attributed to the junior author, Mr. David G. Cook,' so authorship is Cook, 1966
[request] additional source Piguet, E. (1919). Wasserbewohnende Oligochaeten der nord-schwedischen Hochgebirge. <em>Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lappland.</em> 4(7): 779-804.
page(s): 795 [details]
additional source Hrabě, S. (1935). Oligohety ozera Issyk-Kul. [Die Oligochaeten des Issykkulsees]. [The oligochaetes of Lake Issyk-Kul]. <em>Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Kirgizskoj kompleksnoj expedicii.</em> 3: 73–85.
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Dieffenbach, O. (1886). Anatomische und systematische studien an Oligochaetae limicolae. I. Zur Anatomie von Lumbriculus variegatus; II. Zur Anatomie der Tubificiden; III. Systematische bemerkungen über Tubificiden; IV. Beobachtungen an Nais elinguis und lurida; V. Eine neue Pachydrilus art. <em>Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde.</em> 24: 65-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12821269
page(s): 65 [details]
additional source Eisen, G. (1872). Om nagra arktiska Oligochaeter. <em>Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar.</em> 29(1): 119-124 + Plate 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59627609
page(s): 122 [details]
additional source Hesse, R. (1894). Die Geslechtsorgane von Lumbriculus variegatus Grube. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 58: 355-363 + Plate XXII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43265093 [details]
additional source Timm, T.; Erséus, C.; Lundberg, S. (1996). New and unusual records of freshwater oligochaeta from the Scandinavian Peninsula. <em>Nordic Journal of Freshwater Research.</em> 72:15-29., available online at https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/48949
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Timm,. T. (2004). Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS2. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. <em>[Book].</em> 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71343
page(s): 214 [details]
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. <em>[Book chapter].</em> 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. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Ferronnière, G. (1899). IIIe Contribution a l'Etude de la Faune de la Loire-Inferieure (Annelida oligochetes). <em>Bull. Soc. sc. nat. Ouest.</em> T. 9. fasc. III: p229-295 + 2 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5857541#page/341/mode/1up
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Grube, E. (1844). Über den Lumbricus variegatus Müller's und ihm verwandte Anneliden. <em>Arch. Naturgesch.</em> 10: 198-216. [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1966). A contribution towards a revision of the aquatic Oligochaeta of Africa. <em>African Zoology.</em> 2(2): 131-166.
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. <em>Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci.</em> 84.
page(s): 237 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Udekem, J. d'. (1859). Nouvelle classification des Annélides sétigères abranches. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.</em> 31: 1-28., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16207584
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Friend, H. (1912). Some Annelids of the Thames Valley. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 32(213): 95-106.
page(s): 99 [details]
additional source Rodriguez, P. (1988). Sur certaines espèces de Lumbriculidae (Annelida : Oligochaeta) du nord de la péninsule ibérique. <em>Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology.</em> 24(3): 203-211., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/1988018 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1971). The aquatic Oligochaeta known from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. <em>Papers Dep Zool Univ Queensland.</em> 3(8): 99-128., available online at https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300496/QL1_U7_1971_v3no8.pdf
page(s): 106 [details]
additional source Claparède, Edouard. R. (1862). Recherches anatomiques sur les Oligochètes. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 16: 217-291, plates 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14253066
page(s): 255 [details]
additional source Hrabĕ, S. (1939). Vodni Oligochaeta z Vysokych Tater. <em>Věst. Česk. Zool. Spol.</em> 6-7: 209-236., available online at http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/knav/view/uuid:6b9eee0f-d5cf-4e7b-bb7b-7919f93e3889?page=uuid:c2b21a7f-9064-4405-afd5-1cb9f5120a12
page(s): 229 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Michaelsen, W. (1929). Oligochaten der Kamtschatka-Expedition 1908-1909. <em>Annu Mus Zool Leningrad.</em> 30: 315-329. [details]
additional source Eisen, G.A. (1879). On the Oligochaeta collected during the swedish expeditions to the arctic regions in the years 1870, 1875 and 1876. <em>Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar.</em> 15(7): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33813410
page(s): 9 [details]
status source Gustafsson, D. R.; Price, D. A.; Erséus, C. (2009). Genetic variation in the popular lab worm Lumbriculus variegatus (Annelida: Clitellata: Lumbriculidae) reveals cryptic speciation. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 51(2): 182-189., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790308005939
page(s): 187; note: reports 3 clades, including 2 co-occurring clades in Sweden they regard as separate species, unknown which if either was Müller's (1774) species. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (69 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (219 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) (from synonym Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (135 nucleotides; 108 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (9 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (219 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) (from synonym Lumbricus variegatus Müller, 1774)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (135 nucleotides; 108 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (9 records)
To ITIS
