Gordiodrilus elegans Beddard, 1892

• Slender, small worms, size 35-47 mm.
• Setae lumbricine, closely paired.
• Dorsal pores absent.
• Spermathecal pores two pairs, on the intersegmental regions of 7/8 and 8/9, at setal line of b.
• Male genital region protruded in the form of either a nearly square area or a dumbbell-shaped area; male pores are seemingly situated at the intersegmental furrow of xvii/xviii.
• Spermathecae two pairs, without discrete diverticula.
• Gizzard, typhlosole, and supra-intestinal glands absent.
• A ventromedian calciferous gland in ix.
• Intestinal origin in xii.
• Single species recorded in India.
• Type locality Lagos, Nigeria and is exotic.