Haplotaxida
Helodrilus caliginosus (Lumbricina: Lumbricidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Clitellata
Subclass:	Oligochaeta (but see text)
Order:	Haplotaxida
Suborders
Haplotaxina Lumbricina Moniligastrina Tubificina

The Haplotaxida are one of two orders within the annelid subclass Oligochaeta, the other being the Lumbriculida. No real common name exists, but they are simply referred to as haplotaxids.

Given that the other clitellatan annelids are embedded between and around the Haplotaxida and Lumbriculida, the traditional Oligochaeta are a paraphyletic assemblage. Thus, the Haplotaxida might eventually be up-ranked to subclass status within the Clitellata or an expanded Oligochaeta, with the present suborders advancing to order rank. The latter – though without merging the Oligochaeta and Clitellata – has been proposed times and again in the past, most prominently for the distinct Moniligastrina.

[edit] Families

Of the four suborders of Haplotaxida, two are minor lineages, monotypic at family level. Another one, the Tubificina, is sizeable and contains the aquaworms, while the fourth, the earthworms or Lumbricina, unites the bulk of the order's families:

Suborder Haplotaxina

• Haplotaxidae

Suborder Moniligastrina

• Moniligastridae

Suborder Lumbricina

• Alluroididae
• Eudrilidae
• Glossoscolecidae
• Lumbricidae
• Hormogastridae
• Ailoscolidae
• Lutodrilidae
• Sparganophilidae
• Criodrilidae
• Ocnerodrilidae
• Acanthodrilidae
• Octochaetidae
• Exxidae
• Megascolecidae
• Microchaetidae

Suborder Tubificina

• Dorydrilidae
• Enchytraeidae
• Naididae (including Tubificidae)
• Opistocystidae
• Phreodrilidae

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