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Scientific Name: Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892
English Name: Tubificid worm
Photo: Wim Langbroek(GBIF)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Tubificida
Family: Naididae
Description:
Branchiura sowerbyi are relatively large worms, brownish with whitish, more transparent margins. They have a bluntly conical prostomium and no eyes. The body with 70-180 segments. Dorsal setae start from segment II, with 3-7 setae per bundle, decreasing to one posteriorly. Cylindrical gills are segmentally arranged in the posterior part of the body. The gill-bearing segments lack hair setae, and the length of hairs varies within the same bundle.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Commonly found in the fish pond, rivers, lakes, haors, and other fresh waterbodies of Bangladesh
Environment:
Freshwater
Main References:
Ali S, Chakraborty T (1992) BANGLADESHER MITHA PANIR AMERUDANDI PRANI (A book on Freshwater Invertebrates of Bangladesh). Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISBN: 984-07-4051-17
Other References:
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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