Brinkhurst, 1981
Type species Embolocephalus multisetosus Smith, 1900
Number of species 2. In NWE, one species:
Quistadrilus multisetosus (Smith, 1900)
Description
Medium-sized tubificids with small secretory papillae and circlets of prominent sensory papillae. Hair and pectinate chaetae present dorsally, bifid crotchets ventrally; no modified genital chaetae. Differing from the other papillate genera of tubificids, besides the anatomy of reproductive system, also in presence of very large sensory papillae; from Embolocephalus and Haber, as well as in lack of modified genital chaetae.
Burrowing in sediment.
Distribution
North America, Europe.
Ecology
In freshwater.
Reproduction
Sexual only. Eggs laid in cocoons.
Literature
Brinkhurst, 1981: 1060-1061.