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 [1]

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

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### Family Chrysopetalidae

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2 species

### Family Pisionidae

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First segment projects forward of the head. Pisione.

1 species

### Family Aphroditidae

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

4 species including

* Aphrodita aculeata

### Family Polynoidae

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29 species including

* Alentia gelatinosa
* Gattyana cirrosa
* Lepidonotus squamatus

### Family Pholoidae

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

4 species

### Family Sigalionidae

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

8 species including

* Sigalion mathildae

### Family Phyllodocidae

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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

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1 species

* Chaetopterus variopedatus

### Family Lacydoniidae

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

1 species

### Family Alciopidae

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Slender pelagic forms with giant eyes. Vanadis, Alciopa.

3 species

### Family Lopadorrhynchidae

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Short pelagic forms. Lopadorrhynchus.

5 species

### Family Typhloscolecidae

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

2 species

### Family Tomopteridae

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

2 species

### Family Glyceridae

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

1 species

* Glycera alba

### Family Goniadidae

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

3 species

### Family Sphaerodoridae

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Dorsal rows of spherical tubercles. Sphaerodorum.

4 species

### Family Hesionidae

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10 species

### Family Pilargidae

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1 species

### Family Syllidae

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38 species including

* Haplosyllis spongicola
* Sphaerosyllis levantina
* Syllis prolifera

### Family Nereididae

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10 species including

* Alitta succinea
* Alitta virens
* Hediste diversicolor
* Platynereis dumerilii
* Eunereis longissima

### Family Nephtyidae

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11 species including

* Nephtys cirrosa

## Order Amphinomida

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### Family Amphinomidae

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3 species

### Family Euphrosinidae

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## Order Spintherida

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### Family Spintheridae

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1 species

## Order Eunicida

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### Family Onuphidae

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1 species

### Family Eunicidae

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8 species

### Family Lumbrineridae

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

5 species

### Family Oenonidae

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

3 species

### Family Dorvilleidae

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A Eunicida group with multiple jaw elements. Dorvillea, Ophryotrocha

6 species including

* Protodorvillea kefersteini

## Order Orbiniida

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### Family Orbiniidae

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3 species

### Family Paraonidae

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

13 species

### Order Spionida

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### Family Apistobranchidae

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1 species

### Family Poecilochaetidae

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

1 species

### Family Spionidae

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31 species including

* Aonides paucibranchiata
* Scolelepis bonnieri
* Scolelepis squamata
* Spiophanes bombyx

### Family Magelonidae

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

5 species

### Family Cirratulidae

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12 species including

* Cirratulus cirratus

## Order Cossurida

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### Family Cossuridae

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

1 species

## Order Terebellida

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### Family Flabelligeridae

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

4 species including

* Diplocirrus glaucus
* Diplocirrus incognitus

### Family Acrocirridae

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1 species

## Order Capitellida

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### Family Capitellidae

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9 species including

* Heteromastus filiformis

### Family Arenicolidae

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3 species including

* Arenicola marina

### Family Maldanidae

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Bamboo worms. Long and cylindrical 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

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### Family Opheliidae

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9 species including

* Ophelina acuminata
* Thoracophelia flabellifera
* Ophelia limacina

### Family Scalibregmatidae

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

4 species including

* Scalibregma inflatum

## Order Nerillida

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### Family Nerillidae

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1 species

* Nerilla antennata

## Order Polygordiida

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### Family Polygordiidae

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

2 species

## Order Protodrilida

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### Family Protodrilidae

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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

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* Dinophilus taeniatus

### Family Saccocirridae

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1 species

## Order Oweniida

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### Family Oweniidae

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2 species

## Order Terebellida

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### Family Pectinariidae

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3 species

### Family Sabellariidae

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3 species including

* Sabellaria alveolata
* Sabellaria spinulosa
* Sabella spallanzanii

### Family Ampharetidae

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

5 species including

* Ampharete acutifrons

### Family Trichobranchidae

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Resemble Terebellidae but have long-handled hooks. Terebellides.

2 species

### Family Terebellidae

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23 species including

* Lanice conchilega
* Thelepus cincinnatus
* Lagis koreni

## Order Sabellida

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### Family Sabellidae

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19 species including

* Sabella pavonina

### Family Serpulidae

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8 species including

* Janua pagenstecheri
* Ficopomatus enigmaticus
* Serpula vermicularis
* Pomatoceros triqueter
* Pomatoceros lamarckii

### Family Spirorbidae

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

8 species including

* Spirorbis spirorbis

## Order Myzostomida

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### Family Myzostomatidae

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1 species

Class Aphanoneura

### Family Aeolosomatidae

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* Aeolosoma hemprichi
* Aeolosoma variegatum

Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta

## Order Opisthopora

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### Family Acanthodrilidae

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1 species

### Family Octochaetidae

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1 species

### Family Lumbricidae

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26 species [2]

* 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

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### Family Enchytraeidae

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96 species

## Order Tubificida

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### Family Naididae

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50 species

## Order Lumbriculida

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### Family Lumbriculidae

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5 species

Class Clitellata Subclass Hirudinea

## Order Arhynchobdellida

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### Family Erpobdellidae

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5 species

### Family Hirudinidae

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1 species

* Hirudo medicinalis

## Order Rhynchobdellida

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### Family Glossiphoniidae

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7 species

### Family Ozobranchidae

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2 species

### Family Piscicolidae

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17 species

## References

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1. ^ T. K. McCarthy, T.K., 1975 Observations on the Distribution of the Freshwater Leeches (Hirudinea) of Ireland Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section B: Biological, Geological, and Chemical Science Vol. 75 (1975), pp. 401-451
2. ^ Blakemore, R.J. 2005. British and Irish earthworms – A checklist of species updated from Sims & Gerard pdf .

* 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

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* 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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