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).
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
- Alentia gelatinosa
- Gattyana cirrosa
- Lepidonotus squamatus
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
- Eulalia viridis
- Eteone foliosa
- Eteone longa
- Eumida sanguinea
- Hesionura elongata
- Phyllodoce lineata
- Phyllodoce maculata
- Phyllodoce rosea
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
- Janua pagenstecheri
- Ficopomatus enigmaticus
- Serpula vermicularis
- Pomatoceros triqueter
- Pomatoceros lamarckii
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
- Aeolosoma hemprichi
- Aeolosoma variegatum
Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta
Order Opisthopora
Family Acanthodrilidae
1 species
Family Octochaetidae
1 species
Family Lumbricidae
26 species
- Allolobophora chlorotica
- Allolobophoridella eiseni
- Aporrectodea caliginosa
- Aporrectodea cupulifera
- Aporrectodea icterica
- Aporrectodea limicola
- Aporrectodea longa
- Aporrectodea rosea
- Dendrobaena attemsi
- Dendrobaena hortensis
- Dendrobaena octaedra
- Dendrobaena veneta
- Dendrodrilus rubidus
- Dendrodrilus subrubicundus
- Eisenia fetida
- Eisenia parva
- Eiseniella tetraedra
- Helodrilus oculatus
- Lumbricus castaneus
- Lumbricus festivus
- Lumbricus friendi
- Lumbricus rubellus
- Lumbricus terrestris
- Murchieona minuscula
- Octolasion cyaneum
- Octolasion lacteum
- Satchellius mammalis
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
References
- Fauna Europaea
- McIntosh, William Carmichael A monograph of the British marine annelids. London,The Ray society,1873/1900-1922/23.online
- Bellan, G. (2001) Polychaeta in Costello, M.J. (2001).European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.
- P. J. Hayward and J. S. Ryland Eds., 1999 The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198540557
- Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E.(eds) 1997. The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas.Ulster Museum and The Marine Conservation Society, Belfast and Ross-on-Wye.
- Fauvel P., 1923. Polychètes errantes. Faune de France n° 5 488 p., 181 fig.PDF (25 Mo) (Identification)
- Fauvel P., 1927. Polychètes sédentaires. Faune de France n° 16 494 p., 152 fig.PDF (25 Mo) (Identification)
- World Register of Marine Species Searchable for Irish list
External links
- Bernard E. Picton and Christine C. Morrow Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
- MarLIN Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland.
- Roche C., Clarke S. & O’Connor B. (2005) Inventory of Irish marine wildlife publications. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 16. National Parks and Wildlife Service,Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland.
- Marine species identification portal
- Barnich, R Scale worms in British and Irish waters
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