Annelid Geographic Faunal Lists and Directories

Annelid faunas

• North America west coast: NE Pacific Polychaetes (by JM Orensanz) - Introduction.

• North Europe: North East Atlantic Taxa

  Introduction and link to lists, including Annelids (279Kb file), for the MIOS (Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia) area. The format of the lists is pdf (Adobe portable document format).

• Europe - Iberian Peninsula: Annelida listings

  Polychaeta based on Ariño, A.H. (1987), and part of the comprehensive Iberian Fauna Project (including a "Fauna Iberica" monograph series).

• British Isles: UK marine fauna directory: General Introduction

  Sadly the main content of this directory, which included excellent presentations by ASY Mackie and C Erseus on UK annelids, has been withdrawn due to a copyright disagreement.

• Australia: DELTA treatment of polychaetes from southern Australia

  Robin Wilson's project to produce interactive identification tools for southern Australian polychaetes. Introductions to many (not yet all) polychaete families, and DELTA files for (at present) Capitellidae, Lumbrineridae, Nephtyidae, Opheliidae, and Terebellidae)

• World-wide: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms - at ETI site.

  Annelids and related marine worm groups are planned to be added shortly, at least to family level

Original 1996. Last update 13 Aug 2000. Please look in again soon.