Criodrilidae Vejdovský, 1884

Misirlioğlu, Mete, Reynolds, John Warren, Stojanović, Mirjana, Trakić, Tanja, Sekulić, Jovana, James, Samuel W., Csuzdi, Csaba, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lapied, Emmanuel, Phillips, Helen R. P., Cameron, Erin K. & Brown, George G., 2023, Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution, Zootaxa 5255 (1), pp. 417-438 : 423

Criodrilidae Vejdovský, 1884

The Palearctic family Criodrilidae includes mainly aquatic species in a single genus, Criodrilus with two valid species, C. lacuum from Europe, and C. ghianae Qiu & Bouché , from Mediterranean Algeria. The former species, may be among the longest living of earthworms, known to achieve 46 years of age when kept in aquaria ( Timm 2020). The species is widely distributed in Europe and common all around the Mediterranean, with its northernmost distribution in Latvia ( Smiljkov et al. 2005; Blakemore 2008b; Atanacković et al. 2013; Valchovski 2013; Mısırlıoğlu 2017; Timm 2020). Outside its native range, C. lacuum has only been reported from potted plants in Baltimore ( USA) ( McKey-Fender & MacNab 1953). Previous reports of this species from Brazil ( Knäpper 1976; Knäpper & Porto 1979) actually refer to G. camaqua , a species of Almidae (see above, and Ferreira et al. 2023).