List of Annelida of Ireland

This is a list of the Annelida recorded from Ireland.

In Ireland the number of species is -

Class Polychaeta 404 species Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta 179 species Subclass Hirudinea 32 species

Taxonomy Here the leeches and oligochaetes are placed together in the Class Clitellata. The marine Polychaeta are ranked as a Class.These groups (and the Annelida) may be monophyletic, paraphyletic or polyphyletic. (Rouse and Pleijel, 2001).

A variety of Polychaeta
Polychaeta:1 Autolytus pictus Ehlers, 1864 Syllidae;2 Phyllodoce lamelligera (Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1788) Phyllodocidae;3 Phyllodoce maculata (Linnaeus, 1767) Phyllodocidae;4,5 Nereiphylla rubiginosa (Saint-Joseph, 1888) Phyllodocidae
Polychaeta:1 Sabellaria spinulosa Leuckart, 1849 Sabellariidae;2 Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 Pectinariidae;3 Ampharete acutifrons (Grube, 1860) Ampharetidae;4 Sabellaria alveolata Linnaeus, 1767 Sabellariidae;5 Nicolea venustula (Montagu, 1819) Terebellidae;6 Branchiomma argus (Sars, 1862) Sabellidae;7 Dipolydora flava (Claparède, 1870) Spionidae
Polychaeta:*1, 2 Phyllodoce lamelligera (Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1788) Phyllodocidae;*3,4. Odontosyllis gibba (Claparède, 1863) Syllidae;*5. Odontosyllis fulgurans (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) Syllidae;*6. Syllis krohnii Ehlers, 1864 Syllidae;*7. Myrianida prolifera (O.F. Müller, 1788) Syllidae;*8. Proceraea picta Ehlers, 1864 Syllidae.

Order Phyllodocida


Family Chrysopetalidae

2 species

Family Pisionidae

First segment projects forward of the head. Pisione.

1 species

Family Aphroditidae

"Felt"-covered scale worms. Aphrodita, Laetmonice, Palmyra (Palmyridae)

4 species including

Family Polynoidae

29 species including

Family Pholoidae

Minute scale worms. Dorsal scales ringed. Pholoe, Pholoides images of Pholoidae

4 species

Family Sigalionidae

Scale worms (with dorsal scales) and compound neurosetae. Sigalion, Psammolyce, Sthenelais.

8 species including

Family Phyllodocidae

Active predators with leaf-like dorsal cirri, notopodia otherwise reduced. Phyllodoce, Eumida Eteone and many others.

38 species including

Family Chaetopteridae

1 species

Family Lacydoniidae

A small obscure family, perhaps with hesionid affinities. Short body and proboscis unarmed. Lacydonia.

1 species

Family Alciopidae

Slender pelagic forms with giant eyes. Vanadis, Alciopa.

3 species

Family Lopadorrhynchidae

Short pelagic forms. Lopadorrhynchus.

5 species

Family Typhloscolecidae

Transparent pelagic group with tapering bodies and foliaceous segmental cirri. Sagitella, Typhloscolex, Travisiopsis.

2 species

Family Tomopteridae

Flattened pelagic forms with long cirri on segment-two. Tomopteris

2 species

Family Glyceridae

Cylindrical forms with a conical prostomium and four jaws. Glycera, Hemipodus.

1 species

Family Goniadidae

Similar to Glyceridae with the anterior parapodia uniramous, multiple jaw- pieces, and chevron structures on the proboscis. Goniada, Glycinde.

3 species

Family Sphaerodoridae

Dorsal rows of spherical tubercles. Sphaerodorum.

4 species

Family Hesionidae

10 species

Family Pilargidae

1 species

Family Syllidae

38 species including

Family Nereididae

10 species including

Family Nephtyidae

11 species including

Order Amphinomida

Family Amphinomidae

3 species

Order Spintherida

Family Spintheridae

1 species

Order Eunicida

Family Onuphidae

1 species

Family Eunicidae

8 species

Family Lumbrineridae

A Eunicida group lacking notopodia and with reduced or absent dorsal head appendages. Lumbrineris, Ninoe, Lysarete.

5 species

Family Oenonidae

Similar to Lumbrineridae with long maxillary carriers.Arabella, Drilonereis, Oenone.

3 species

Family Dorvilleidae

A Eunicida group with multiple jaw elements. Dorvillea, Ophryotrocha

6 species including

Order Orbiniida

Family Orbiniidae

3 species

Family Paraonidae

Resembling Spionidae (but unrelated). With or without a single antenna, with gills, and without palps.Paraonis, Aricidea.

13 species

Family Apistobranchidae

1 species

Family Poecilochaetidae

Fragile forms with stiff parapodial lobes and multiple simple setal types. Poecilochaetus.

1 species

Family Spionidae

31 species including

Family Magelonidae

Small forms with a shovel-like head and papillose palp pair. Magelona.

5 species

Family Cirratulidae

12 species including

Order Cossurida

Family Cossuridae

Slender forms with a single median palp on dorsal side of one anterior setiger.

1 species

Order Flabelligerida

Family Flabelligeridae

Papillated body and cross-barred setae. Flabelligera,Diplocirrus, Brada.

4 species including

Family Acrocirridae

1 species

Order Capitellida

Family Capitellidae

9 species including

Family Arenicolidae

3 species including

Family Maldanidae

Bamboo worms.Long and cyclindrical and truncate at one or both ends.Most with long, cylindrical segments with a pair of nuchal slits and a median cephalic keel.Maldane, Axiothella, Rhodine, Nicomache.

10 species

Order Opheliida

Family Opheliidae

9 species including

Family Scalibregmatidae

Maggot-like or anteriorly inflated group with a small T-shaped prostomium. Scalibregma, Hyboscolex.

4 species including

Order Nerillida

Family Nerillidae

1 species

Order Polygordiida

Family Polygordiidae

Elongate nematode-like forms without setae, and with a stiff frontal tentacle pair. Polygordius.

2 species

Order Protodrilida

Family Protodrilidae

Minute forms without setae and with a flexible tentacle pair (near-frontal, but separated). They live in spaces between sediment grains. Protodrilus.

1 species

Order Polychaeta incertae sedis

Family Saccocirridae

1 species

Order Oweniida

Family Oweniidae

2 species

Order Terebellida

Family Pectinariidae

3 species

Family Sabellariidae

3 species including

Family Ampharetidae

Forms with no posterior notosetae and usually with simple, transversely-arranged gills. Ampharete, Melinna

5 species including

Family Trichobranchidae

Resemble Terebellidae but have long-handled hooks. Terebellides.

2 species

Family Terebellidae

23 species including

Order Sabellida

Family Sabellidae

19 species including

Family Serpulidae

8 species including

Family Spirorbidae

Small asymmetric fan worms with coiled calcareous tubes cemented to algae and rock. Spirorbis.

8 species including

Order Myzostomida

Family Myzostomidae

1 species

Class Aphanoneura

Family Aeolosomatidae

Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta

Order Opisthopora

Family Acanthodrilidae

1 species

Family Octochaetidae

1 species

Family Lumbricidae

26 species

Order Enchytraeida

Family Enchytraeidae

96 species

Order Tubificida

Family Naididae

50 species

Order Lumbriculida

Family Lumbriculidae

5 species

Class Clitellata Subclass Hirudinea

Order Arhynchobdellida

Family Erpobdellidae

5 species

Family Hirudinidae

1 species

Order Rhynchobdellida

Family Glossiphonidae

7 species

Family Ozobranchidae

2 species

Family Piscicolidae

17 species

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