microdrile
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + δρῖλος (drîlos, “worm”).
Noun[edit]
microdrile (plural microdriles)
- Any relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta.
- 1975, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Zoology, volume 26, page 205:
- Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae.
- 1981, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure of the Oligochaeta, page 45:
- In microdriles the circular muscle is generally only weakly developed.
- 1991, Zoological Survey of India, Animal Resources of India: Protozoa to Mammalia: State of the Art, page 164:
- Microdriles in our subcontinent are represented by three families of aquatic oligochaetes namely Naididae, Tubificidae and Phraeodrilidae, and terrestrial pot worms of the Enchytraeidae.
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References[edit]
microdrile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
