Eudrilidae Claus, 1880

Jamieson, Barrie G. M., Tillier, Simon, Tillier, Annie, Justine, Jean-Lou, Ling, Edmund, James, Sam, Mcdonald, Keith & Hugall, Andrew F., 2002, Phylogeny of the Megascolecidae and Crassiclitellata (Annelida, Oligochaeta): combined versus partitioned analysis using nuclear (28 S) and mitochondrial (12 S, 16 S) rDNA, Zoosystema 24 (4), pp. 707-734 : 728

Eudrilidae Claus, 1880

The family Eudrilidae has formerly been associated with the Megascolecidae and Ocnerodrilidae in a superfamily Megascolecoidea ( Jamieson 1978) or in a separate superfamily Eudriloidea as the sistergroup of the Lumbricoidea + Megascolecoidea s.s., in the morphocladistic analysis ( Jamieson 1988). In the present analysis, Eudrilus always has the glossoscolecid Gen. sp. (a lumbricoid sensu Jamieson 1978, 1988) as its sister-taxon, with moderate BS support of 63-84 % (MP, ML, Figs 2; 3). The other glossoscolecid, Pontoscolex , may or may not link with these. There is no molecular support here for regarding eudrilids as the unique sister-group of the Ocnerodrilidae + Megascolecidae assemblage. Omodeo (2000) derived eudrilids independently (from alluroidids), thus also noting their distinctness but that origin goes contrary to the present confirmation of the monophyletic nature of the Crassiclitellata .