Eisen, 1879b
Type species Ilyodrilus perrieri Eisen, 1879b
Number of species 5. In NWE, one species:
Ilyodrilus templetoni (Southern, 1909)
Description
Small smooth pink tubificids, mostly with hair and pectinate chaetae in dorsal bundles. No modified genital chaetae, no ventral chaetae in XI. Delicate short, truncated conical, penial sheaths present inside body. No coelomocytes.
Burrowing in sediment.
Distribution
Holarctic, China, Japan.
Ecology
In freshwater.
Reproduction
Sexual only. Eggs laid in cocoons.
Literature
Eisen, 1879b: 9; Brinkhurst and Jamieson, 1971: 495-496; Hrabe, 1981: 82; Kasprzak, 1981: 158-159; Holmquist, 1985: 327-349.