WoRMS taxon details
Annelida
- Class Clitellata
- Class Polychaeta
- Order Sipuncula
- Superclass Annelida incertae sedis (temporary name)
- Class Gephyrea (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1802 [privately published, reprinted 1906]). Discours d'Ouverture, Prononcé le 27 floréal An 10, au Muséum dHistoire naturelle. Recherches sur l'organisation des corps vivans. <em>[reprint 1906] Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> (5th series) 40: 483-517 [Les Annelides p. 494]., 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]
WoRMS (2025). Annelida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=882 on 2025-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1802 [privately published, reprinted 1906]). Discours d'Ouverture, Prononcé le 27 floréal An 10, au Muséum dHistoire naturelle. Recherches sur l'organisation des corps vivans. <em>[reprint 1906] Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> (5th series) 40: 483-517 [Les Annelides p. 494]., 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]
Taxonomy
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]
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
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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
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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 [request]
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 [request]
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 [request]
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]
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]
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
[request]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
[request]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
[request]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]
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
From editor or global species database
Classification In recent molecular studies it is clear that several groups formerly placed outside Annelida phylum actually belong in annelids. One of these are the Orthonectida, vermiform endoparasites of various marine animals that have been linked in the Mesozoa. Schiffer et al (2018) found that the orthonectid genus Intoshia is a member of the Annelida, but perhaps lies outside of the Pleistoannelida. In WoRMS orthonectids are currently a stand-alone phylum. [details]Editor's comment Lamarck (1802), in his annual major speech at the Paris museum, addressed the assembled citoyens of the French Republic to introduce and define “Annelides” (no e accent initially, both when written upper case in a heading and when in lower case in the text) as the French name of an additional new main “classe” of the animal kingdom, slotting between molluscs and crustaceans and separate from another “vers” group. The original publication is at Gallica and there is a reprint version in 1906 in Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | ringwormengelede wormen | [details] |
| English | segmented wormsEuropean sea mouseannelids | [details] |
| German | RingelwürmerGliederwürmerBorstenfüßerAnneliden | [details] |
| Japanese | 環形動物門 | [details] |
| Swedish | ringmaskar | [details] |
| Ukrainian | Кільчасті черви | [details] |
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
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