# 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
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).

## Order Phyllodocida
### Family Chrysopetalidae

2 species

### Family Pisionidae

First segment projects forward of the head. Pisione.
1 species

### Family Aphroditidae

"Felt"-covered scale worms. Aphrodita, Laetmonice, Palmyra (Palmyridae)
4 species including
* Aphrodita aculeata

### Family Polynoidae

29 species including
* Alentia gelatinosa
* Gattyana cirrosa
* Lepidonotus squamatus

### Family Pholoidae

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

### Family Sigalionidae

Scale worms (with dorsal scales) and compound neurosetae. Sigalion, Psammolyce, Sthenelais.
8 species including
* Sigalion mathildae

### Family Phyllodocidae

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

1 species
* Chaetopterus variopedatus

### Family Lacydoniidae

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

### Family Alciopidae

Slender pelagic forms with giant eyes. Vanadis, Alciopa.
3 species

### Family Lopadorrhynchidae

Short pelagic forms. Lopadorrhynchus.
5 species

### Family Typhloscolecidae

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

### Family Tomopteridae

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

### Family Glyceridae

Cylindrical forms with a conical prostomium and four jaws. Glycera, Hemipodus.
1 species
* Glycera alba

### Family Goniadidae

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

### Family Sphaerodoridae

Dorsal rows of spherical tubercles. Sphaerodorum.
4 species

### Family Hesionidae

10 species

### Family Pilargidae

1 species

### Family Syllidae

38 species including
* Haplosyllis spongicola
* Sphaerosyllis levantina
* Syllis prolifera

### Family Nereididae

10 species including
* Alitta succinea
* Alitta virens
* Hediste diversicolor
* Platynereis dumerilii
* Eunereis longissima

### Family Nephtyidae

11 species including
* Nephtys cirrosa

## Order Amphinomida
### Family Amphinomidae

3 species

### Family Euphrosinidae
## Order Spintherida
### Family Spintheridae

1 species

## Order Eunicida
### Family Onuphidae

1 species

### Family Eunicidae

8 species

### Family Lumbrineridae

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

### Family Oenonidae

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

### Family Dorvilleidae

A Eunicida group with multiple jaw elements. Dorvillea, Ophryotrocha
6 species including
* Protodorvillea kefersteini

## Order Orbiniida
### Family Orbiniidae

3 species

### Family Paraonidae

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

### Family Apistobranchidae

1 species

### Family Poecilochaetidae

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

### Family Spionidae

31 species including
* Aonides paucibranchiata
* Scolelepis bonnieri
* Scolelepis squamata
* Spiophanes bombyx

### Family Magelonidae

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

### Family Cirratulidae

12 species including
* Cirratulus cirratus

## Order Cossurida
### Family Cossuridae

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

## Order Terebellida
### Family Flabelligeridae

Papillated body and cross-barred setae. Flabelligera, Diplocirrus, Brada.
4 species including
* Diplocirrus glaucus
* Diplocirrus incognitus

### Family Acrocirridae

1 species

## Order Capitellida
### Family Capitellidae

9 species including
* Heteromastus filiformis

### Family Arenicolidae

3 species including
* Arenicola marina

### Family Maldanidae

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
### Family Opheliidae

9 species including
* Ophelina acuminata
* Thoracophelia flabellifera
* Ophelia limacina

### Family Scalibregmatidae

Maggot-like or anteriorly inflated group with a small T-shaped prostomium. Scalibregma, Hyboscolex.
4 species including
* Scalibregma inflatum

## Order Nerillida
### Family Nerillidae

1 species
* Nerilla antennata

## Order Polygordiida
### Family Polygordiidae

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

## Order Protodrilida
### Family Protodrilidae

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

* Dinophilus taeniatus

### Family Saccocirridae

1 species

## Order Oweniida
### Family Oweniidae

2 species

## Order Terebellida
### Family Pectinariidae

3 species

### Family Sabellariidae

3 species including
* Sabellaria alveolata
* Sabellaria spinulosa
* Sabella spallanzanii

### Family Ampharetidae

Forms with no posterior notosetae and usually with simple, transversely-arranged gills. Ampharete, Melinna
5 species including
* Ampharete acutifrons

### Family Trichobranchidae

Resemble Terebellidae but have long-handled hooks. Terebellides.
2 species

### Family Terebellidae

23 species including
* Lanice conchilega
* Thelepus cincinnatus
* Lagis koreni

## Order Sabellida
### Family Sabellidae

19 species including
* Sabella pavonina

### Family Serpulidae

8 species including
* Janua pagenstecheri
* Ficopomatus enigmaticus
* Serpula vermicularis
* Pomatoceros triqueter
* Pomatoceros lamarckii

### Family Spirorbidae

Small asymmetric fan worms with coiled calcareous tubes cemented to algae and rock. Spirorbis.
8 species including
* Spirorbis spirorbis

## Order Myzostomida
### Family Myzostomatidae

1 species
Class Aphanoneura

### Family Aeolosomatidae

* Aeolosoma hemprichi
* Aeolosoma variegatum
Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta

## Order Opisthopora
### Family Acanthodrilidae

1 species

### Family Octochaetidae

1 species

### Family Lumbricidae

26 species
* 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
### Family Enchytraeidae

96 species

## Order Tubificida
### Family Naididae

50 species

## Order Lumbriculida
### Family Lumbriculidae

5 species
Class Clitellata Subclass Hirudinea

## Order Arhynchobdellida
### Family Erpobdellidae

5 species

### Family Hirudinidae

1 species
* Hirudo medicinalis

## Order Rhynchobdellida
### Family Glossiphoniidae

7 species

### Family Ozobranchidae

2 species

### Family Piscicolidae

17 species