Annelida

Greg Rouse is a Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology and is also Curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA. He specializes in studying the biodiversity, phylogeny, and systematics of marine animals. He has been on numerous oceanographic expeditions involving deep sea habitats, including whale falls, hydrothermal vents and methane seeps and has been involved in the discovery and naming of more than 200 species, mostly annelids. Prior to joining Scripps, he held research positions at the South Australian Museum and University of Sydney, and as a research fellow (with Kristian Fauchald) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA.Ekin Tilic is currently serving as Curator of Marine Invertebrates at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. He was elected the president of the International Polychaetology Association in 2023. His academic journey includes extensive postdoctoral research focused on annelid evolution and morphology at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Bonn, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research combines phylogenomic methods with advanced bioimaging techniques to study the evolutionary relationships and morphology of marine invertebrate taxa, particularly polychaetes.Fredrik Pleijel is a Senior Researcher at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He previously held a position as curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, completed a post-doc working mainly on hesionid polychaetes (also with Kristian Fauchald) at the Smithsonian Institution and was formerly Senior researcher at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France.

• Preface 1: Introduction and Systematics 2: Anatomy Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Protodriliformia 3: Protodrilida Pettibone, 1982 4: Polygordius Schneider, 1868 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Phyllodocida, Aphroditiformia 5: Eulepethidae Chamberlin, 1919 6: Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867 7: Sigalionidae Kinberg, 1856 8: Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856 9: Iphionidae Kinberg, 1856 10: Polynoidae Kinberg, 1856 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Phyllodocida (incertae sedis) 11: Syllidae Grube, 1850 12: Nephtyidae Grube, 1850 13: Pilargidae Saint-Joseph, 1899 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Phyllodocida, Hesionoidea 14: Chrysopetalidae Ehlers, 1864 15: Hesionidae Grube, 1850 16: Nereididae Johnston, 1865 17: Microphthalmidae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Phyllodocida, Glyceriformia 18: Glyceroidea Fauchald, 1977 19: Sphaerodoridae Malmgren, 1867 20: Tomopteridae Johnston, 1865 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Phyllodocida, Phyllodociformia 21: Lacydonia Marion, 1874 22: Typhloscolecidae Uljanin, 1878 23: Lopadorrhynchidae Claparède, 1868 24: Phyllodocidae Örsted, 1843 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Phyllodocida incertae sedis 25: Paralacydonia Fauvel, 1913 26: Phyllodocida incertae sedis Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Eunicida, Oenonoidea 27: Lumbrineridae Schmarda, 1861 28: Oenonidae Kinberg, 1865 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Eunicida, Eunicoidea 29: Eunicidae Berthold, 1827 30: Onuphidae Kinberg, 1865 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata, Eunicida incertae sedis 31: Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919 32: Histriobdellidae Claus Moquin-Tandon, 1884 33: Hartmaniella Imajima, 1977 Annelida, Polychaeta, Errantia, Aciculata incertae sedis 34: Spinther Johnston, 1845 35: Myzostomida Graff, 1877 36: Aberranta Wolf, 1987 37: Nerillidae Levinsen, 1883 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Sabellida 38: Sabellidae Latreille, 1825 39: Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815 40: Fabriciidae Rioja, 1923 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Spionida 41: Sabellariidae Johnston, 1865 42: Spionidae Grube, 1850 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Oligochaeta 43: Aeolosomatidae Levinson, 1884 44: Hrabeiella Pizl and Chalupsky, 1984 45: Clitellata Michaelsen, 1919 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Capitellida 46: Opheliidae Malmgren, 1867 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Capitellida, Capitelliformia 47: Thalassematidae Forbes, Goodsir, 1841 48: Capitellidae Grube, 1862 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Terebellida 49: Scalibregmatidae Malmgren, 1867 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Terebellida, Maldanomorpha 50: Maldanidae Malmgren, 1867 51: Arenicolidae Johnston, 1835 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Terebellida, Terebelliformia 52: Pectinariidae Quatrefages, 1866 53: Alvinellidae Desbruyères and Laubier, 1986 54: Ampharetidae Malmgren, 1866 55: Trichobranchidae Malmgren, 1866 56: Terebellidae Johnston, 1846 57: Melinnidae Chamberlin, 1919 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Cirratulida 58: Heterospio Ehlers, 1875 59: Cirratulidae Ryckholdt, 1851 60: Acrocirridae Banse, 1969 61: Flabelligeridae Saint-Joseph, 1894 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata, Sternaspida 62: Paraonidae Cerruti, 1909 63: Sternaspidae Carus, 1863 64: Fauveliopsidae Hartman, 1971 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Canalipalpata incertae sedis 65: Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria, Orbiniida 66: Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942 67: Parergodrilidae Reisinger, 1925 Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedentaria incertae sedis 68: Cossura Webster and Benedict, 1887 69: Diurodrilidae Kristensen and Niilonen, 1982 Annelida, Polychaeta incertae sedis Dinophiliformia 70: Dinophilidae Macalister, 1876 71: Lobatocerebrum Rieger, 1980 Annelida, no name 72: Amphinomida Lamarck, 1818 73: Sipuncula Stephen, 1964 Annelida, Chaetopteriformia 74: Apistobranchus Levinsen, 1883 75: Psammodrilus Swedmark, 1952 76: Chaetopteridae Audouin and Milne Edwards, 1833 Annelida, Oweniida 77: Oweniidae Rioja, 1917 78: Magelonidae Cunningham and Ramage, 1888 Glossary References

Review from previous edition 'In this magnificent volume, Rouse and Pleijel present a masterly, fascinating and encyclopaedic summary on an important group of animals. Whilst the core of the book is systematic, the overview at the beginning of the book is concise and invaluable...this introductory section is then succeeded by detailed comparisons, which are not only excellently illustrated but complemented by a handsome set of colour pictures.' (Geological Magazine )