Grania is a genus of marine annelid worms in the class Clitellata. They are found at many depths in sands throughout the world. They are generally about 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in length and mostly colorless or white, though Grania colorata, a recently discovered species found in the Great Barrier Reef, is green.
Species
There are 72 species in the genus Grania which have been identified. They include:[2][3]
Grania acanthochaeta Rota & Erséus, 1996
Grania algida Rota & Erséus, 1996
Grania alliata Coates & Stacey, 1993
Grania americana Kennedy, 1966
Grania angustinasus Rota & Erséus, 1996
Grania antarctica Rota & Erséus, 1996
Grania aquitana Rota & Erseus, 2003
Grania ascophora Coates, 1990
Grania atlantica Coates & Erséus, 1985
Grania bekkouchei Prantoni, De Wit & Erséus, 2016
Grania bermudensis Erséus & Lasserre, 1976
An individual of an undescribed Chilean species of Grania (Photo by Pierre De Wit)
Grania brasiliensis Prantoni, De Wit & Erséus, 2016
Grania breviductus De Wit, Rota & Erséus, 2009
Grania bykane Coates, 1990
Grania canaria Rota & Erseus, 2003
Grania capensis Prantoni, De Wit & Erséus, 2016
Grania carchinii Rota & Erséus, 1996
Grania carolinensis Prantoni, De Wit & Erséus, 2016
^Prantoni, Alessandro L., De Wit, Pierre & Christer Erséus (2016). First reports of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) from Africa and South America: molecular phylogeny and descriptions of nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176: 485-510.
