Scientific Name: Leidy, 1852
English Name: Aquatic oligochaete worm
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Tubificida
Family: Naididae
Description:
Stylaria fossularis is a small worm. Its body appears pale whitish with a transparent body wall and delicate short hairs, particularly concentrated on the prostomium. The eyes are crescentic, blackish purple in color, situated at the base of the prostomium on either side of the mouth. This species does not possess gills. The number of body segments varies from 14 to 64, followed by some undifferentiated posterior segments. It features a proboscis, which protrudes from the tip of the pointed prostomium, with the tip narrower than the base.The hairs are long, straight, and sharply pointed,.The length of the hairs decreases towards the posterior segments. Needles are anodulate, pointed, and straight.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Commonly found in the fish pond, rivers, lakes, haors, and other fresh waterbodies of Bangladesh
Environment:
Freshwater
References:
Ali S, Chakraborty T (1992) BANGLADESHER MITHA PANIR AMERUDANDI PRANI (A book on Freshwater Invertebrates of Bangladesh). Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISBN: 984-07-4051-2
Das BC, Reynolds JW (2003) A checklist and distribution of the freshwater and terrestrial Annelida (Oligochaeta, Hirudinea and Polychaeta) of Bangladesh. Megadrilogica. 2003;9(10):61-70.
Kabir SMH, Ahmed M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondoker M (EDS.) 2009 Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 16. Annelida Echainodermata Acanthocephala and Minor Phyla.. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 232 pp.
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