Baker and Brinkhurst, 1981
Type species Rhizodrilus montanus Hrabe, 1962
Number of species 1. In NWE, one species:
Peristodrilus montanus (Hrabe, 1962)
Description
Medium-sized smooth pink worms with hair and pectinate chaetae, and with coelomocytes. Gradual transition of vas deferens into long tubular atrium covered with prostatic cells. Both penial chaetae and penes present.
Burrowing in sediment.
Distribution
Europe.
Ecology
In freshwater.
Reproduction
Sexual only. Eggs laid in cocoons.
Literature
Baker and Brinkhurst, 1981: 958; Finogenova, 1982a: 16.