Order TUBIFICIDA Jamieson, 1978
Compiler and date details
Adrian M. Pinder
Diagnosis
Mostly aquatic oligochaetes with just one pair of testes and one pair of ovaries in successive segments, with often complex male ducts leading to pores in ovarian segment. Position of the single pair of spermathecae variable but normally anterior to the gonadal segments. Body wall generally thin, clitellum one cell thick. Small in size (usually <20mm). Usually more than two chaetae per bundle, chaetae often with forked or comb-like tips.
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 17-Oct-2023 | ANNELIDA | 19-Sep-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |