Inanidrilus reginae is a species of clitellate oligochaete worm in the family Naididae.[1] It was first found in Belize, on the Caribbean side of Central America. It lives in subtidal sand with seagrass.[2]

Inanidrilus reginae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Clade: Sedentaria
Class: Clitellata
Order: Tubificida
Family: Naididae
Genus: Inanidrilus
Species:
I. reginae
Binomial name
Inanidrilus reginae
Erséus, 1990

References

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  1. ^ Timm, T. (2010). "Inanidrilus reginae Erséus, 1990". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  2. ^ Erseus, Christer (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. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x. S2CID 84355292.

Further reading

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  • Nylander, Johan AA, Christer Erséus, and Mari Källersjö. "A test of monophyly of the gutless Phallodrilinae (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) and the use of a 573‐bp region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene in analysis of annelid phylogeny." Zoologica Scripta 28.3‐4 (1999): 305-313.
  • Diaz, Robert J., and Christer Erseus. "Habitat preferences and species associations of shallow-water marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from the barrier reef ecosystems off Belize, Central America." Aquatic Oligochaete Biology V. Springer Netherlands, 1994. 93-105.
  • Giere, Olav, et al. "A comparative structural study on bacterial symbioses of Caribbean gutless Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta)." Acta zoologica 76.4 (1995): 281-290.