RAS taxon details
Annelida
- Class Clitellata
- Class Polychaeta
- Order Sipuncula
- Superclass Annelida incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, J. B. (1802). Recherches sur l'Organisation des Corps Vivans [reprinted 1906 in Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique (5th series) 40: 483-517 ["Les Annelides" p. 494]. J.B. Lamark & Maillard, Paris, viii + 216 pp., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4226016j, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10730977, http://redi.imss.fi.it/lamarck/ouvrages/docpdf/Recherches_organisation.pdf
page(s): 494; note: as Annelides, without an accent. [details]
page(s): 494; note: as Annelides, without an accent. [details]
RAS (2025). Annelida. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=882 on 2026-01-20
RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Annelida. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/rest/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=882 on 2026-01-20
original description
Lamarck, J. B. (1802). Recherches sur l'Organisation des Corps Vivans [reprinted 1906 in Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique (5th series) 40: 483-517 ["Les Annelides" p. 494]. J.B. Lamark & Maillard, Paris, viii + 216 pp., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4226016j, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10730977, http://redi.imss.fi.it/lamarck/ouvrages/docpdf/Recherches_organisation.pdf
page(s): 494; note: as Annelides, without an accent. [details]
taxonomy source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Hutchings, Pat; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro; Martin, Patrick; Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Wetzel, Mark J.; Wiklund, Helena; Maciolek, Nancy J.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y.; Williams, Jason D. (2021). Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through <em>Zootaxa</em> and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4979(1): 190-211., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4979.1.18 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Schiffer, Philipp H.; Robertson, Helen E.; Telford, Maximilian J. (2018). Orthonectids Are Highly Degenerate Annelid Worms. <em>Current Biology.</em> 28(12): 1970-1974.e3., available online at https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30560-8 [details]
additional source Rouse, Greg; Pleijel, Fredrik; Tilic, Ekin. (2022). Annelida. <em>[book].</em> Oxford University Press, Oxford, 418pp., available online at https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780199692309.001.0001/oso-9780199692309 [details]
additional source Read, Geoffrey B. (2023). Kingdom Animalia, phylum Annelida (bristleworms & kin). <em>NIWA Biodiversity Memoir.</em> 136: 283–297, Chapter 18 In: Kelly, Michelle, Mills, Sadie, Terezow, Marianna G., Sim-Smith, Carina & Nelson, Wendy (Eds), Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand., available online at https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/NIWAbm136-ch18.zip [details] Available for editors
additional source Rouse, Greg W.; Giribet, Gonzalo. (2016). Phylum Annelida: The Segmented (and Some Unsegmented) Worms. <em>[edited book].</em> Chapt 14. p. 531-602 In <i>Invertebrates</i>. Third Edition. R. C. Brusca; W. Moore; S. M. Shuster. Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinauer Associates., available online at https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/invertebrates-9781605353753
note: Textbook chapter which includes an updated classification within Annelida [details] Available for editors
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Glasby, Christopher J.; Biriukova, Olga; Martin, Patrick; Dyne, Geoffrey R.; Utevsky, Serge; Wilson, Robin S. (2025). ANNiKEY Linear – diagnoses, descriptions, and a single-access identification key to Annelida family-level taxa. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1247: 217-403., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/137606/list/9/ [details] Available for editors
biology source Read, Geoffrey B. (2019). A History of Annelida Research. <em>[book chapter].</em> 3-36 In: (eds Purschke, Westheide, Böggemann. Handbook of Zoology. Annelida Volume 1: Annelida Basal Groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria I. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291582-001 [details]
page(s): 494; note: as Annelides, without an accent. [details]
taxonomy source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Hutchings, Pat; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro; Martin, Patrick; Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Wetzel, Mark J.; Wiklund, Helena; Maciolek, Nancy J.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y.; Williams, Jason D. (2021). Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through <em>Zootaxa</em> and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4979(1): 190-211., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4979.1.18 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Schiffer, Philipp H.; Robertson, Helen E.; Telford, Maximilian J. (2018). Orthonectids Are Highly Degenerate Annelid Worms. <em>Current Biology.</em> 28(12): 1970-1974.e3., available online at https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30560-8 [details]
additional source Rouse, Greg; Pleijel, Fredrik; Tilic, Ekin. (2022). Annelida. <em>[book].</em> Oxford University Press, Oxford, 418pp., available online at https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780199692309.001.0001/oso-9780199692309 [details]
additional source Read, Geoffrey B. (2023). Kingdom Animalia, phylum Annelida (bristleworms & kin). <em>NIWA Biodiversity Memoir.</em> 136: 283–297, Chapter 18 In: Kelly, Michelle, Mills, Sadie, Terezow, Marianna G., Sim-Smith, Carina & Nelson, Wendy (Eds), Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand., available online at https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/NIWAbm136-ch18.zip [details] Available for editors
additional source Rouse, Greg W.; Giribet, Gonzalo. (2016). Phylum Annelida: The Segmented (and Some Unsegmented) Worms. <em>[edited book].</em> Chapt 14. p. 531-602 In <i>Invertebrates</i>. Third Edition. R. C. Brusca; W. Moore; S. M. Shuster. Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinauer Associates., available online at https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/invertebrates-9781605353753
note: Textbook chapter which includes an updated classification within Annelida [details] Available for editors
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Glasby, Christopher J.; Biriukova, Olga; Martin, Patrick; Dyne, Geoffrey R.; Utevsky, Serge; Wilson, Robin S. (2025). ANNiKEY Linear – diagnoses, descriptions, and a single-access identification key to Annelida family-level taxa. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1247: 217-403., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/137606/list/9/ [details] Available for editors
biology source Read, Geoffrey B. (2019). A History of Annelida Research. <em>[book chapter].</em> 3-36 In: (eds Purschke, Westheide, Böggemann. Handbook of Zoology. Annelida Volume 1: Annelida Basal Groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria I. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291582-001 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Annelida)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 084527)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Annelida)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 084527)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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