Ruttner-Kolisko, 1955
Type species Aeolosoma neizvestnovi Lastochkin, 1935a
Number of species 1. In NWE, one species:
Rheomorpha neizvestnovae (Lastochkin, 1935a)
Description
Small colourless, transparent worms. Cutaneous glands either colourless, yellowish, greenish, or absent. Two short adhesive appendices on hind end. No chaetae; chaetal bundles replaced by adhesive papillae. Differing from the other aeolosomatids and small aquatic oligochaetes in lack of chaetae.
Both gliding and crawling on substratum.
Distribution
Europe.
Ecology
In freshwater.
Reproduction
Asexual reproduction by paratomy (budding) prevailing.
Literature
Lastochkin, 1935a: 643-645; Ruttner-Kolisko, 1955: 55-69; Naidu, 1961: 646-647; Bunke, 1967: 266; Van der Land, 1971: 693-694, Fig. 13.3.F; Chekanovskaya, 1981: 185; Kasprzak, 1981: 69.