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title: "Dark Red Wriggler"
description: "Eisenia andrei — Autres animaux. Eisenia andrei is a close relative of the 'brandling' or 'tiger' worm Eisenia fetida."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/dark-red-wriggler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dark Red Wriggler

> Eisenia andrei — Autres animaux. Eisenia andrei is a close relative of the 'brandling' or 'tiger' worm Eisenia fetida.

- Scientific name: *Eisenia andrei*
- Category: `other` (Autres animaux)
- Habitats: `urban` (Villes et jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 275
- iNaturalist taxon: [776921](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/776921)

## Names

- en: Dark Red Wriggler

## Countries with the most observations

US (81), FR (8), DE (6), ES (5), PT (5), AR (4), BR (3), MX (3)

## Summary

Eisenia andrei is a close relative of the 'brandling' or 'tiger' worm Eisenia fetida. Like E. fetida, it is epigeic, i.e. it prefers to live in compost or leaf litter rather than mineral soils.
It can be distinguished from E. fetida as it is darker in colour, and the characteristic stripes are less pronounced. Although its status as a separate species was fully confirmed in the mid-1980s by molecular analyses (based on electrophoresis of protein isoforms), E. andrei is still often misidentified and confused with E. fetida.  The muscles of the Eisenia andrei embryos appear in groups of at least two distinct muscles…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenia_andrei

## Photo

![Dark Red Wriggler](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dark-red-wriggler/medium.jpg)

Photo: Emily Langdon-Lassagne · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338346724

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dark-red-wriggler?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).