Gill worm - Gill worm

Japanese: エラミミズ - えらみみず
Gill worm - Gill worm

An aquatic earthworm of the Oligochaeta class of the phylum Annelida and the Tubifex family. It is so named because it has thread-like gills at the end of its body. It has about 120 body segments. Its body length is usually 60-80 millimeters, but some individuals can reach twice that size. It is pale pink or pale purple in color. It is often found in rice paddies and ponds, and like Tubifex worms, it hides the front half of its body in the mud and brings the part with the gills out of the water and shakes it around. It is widely distributed throughout the world, probably because it can tolerate both high and low temperatures. There is only one known species of gill worm in the world.

[Masao Ohno]

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Japanese:

環形動物門貧毛綱イトミミズ科の水生ミミズ。体の末端に糸状のえらが生じるため、この名がある。体節数約120個。体長は普通60~80ミリメートルであるが、なかにはその倍ぐらいの大きさに達する個体もみられる。色は淡紅または淡紫色。水田や池沼に多く、イトミミズと同じように体の前半を泥中に隠し、えらのある部分を水中に出してこれを揺り動かす。高温、低温のいずれにもよく耐えられるためか、世界中に広く分布する。エラミミズ類は世界にただ1種知られるだけである。

[大野正男]

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