Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil..
Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW. Australia. Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2019, Australia..
Zootaxa. 2021 May 28;4979(1):190211. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.18.
Zootaxa has been the leading journal on invertebrate systematics especially within Annelida. Our current estimates indicate annelids include approximately 20,200 valid species of polychaetes, oligochaetes, leeches, sipunculans and echiurans. We include herein the impact of Zootaxa on the description of new annelid species in the last two decades. Since 2001, there have been over 1,300 new annelid taxa published in about 630 papers. The majority of these are polychaetes (921 new species and 40 new genera) followed by oligochaetes (308 new species and 10 new genera) and leeches (21 new species). The numerous papers dealing with new polychaete species have provided us a clear picture on which polychaete families have had the most taxonomic effort and which authors and countries have been the most prolific of descriptions of new taxa. An estimated additional 10,000+ species remain to be described in the phylum, thus we urge annelid workers to continue their efforts and aid in training a new generation of taxonomists focused on this ecologically important group.
《动物分类群》一直是无脊椎动物系统学的领先期刊，尤其是环节动物。我们目前的估计表明，环节动物包括约 20,200 种有效多毛类、寡毛类、蛭类、星虫类和螠虫类。本文将介绍《动物分类群》在过去 20 年对新环节动物物种描述的影响。自 2001 年以来，已有超过 1,300 种新的环节动物分类群在大约 630 篇论文中发表。其中大多数是多毛类（921 个新种和 40 个新属），其次是寡毛类（308 个新种和 10 个新属）和蛭类（21 个新种）。大量涉及新多毛类物种的论文使我们清楚地了解到哪些多毛类家族进行了最多的分类学研究，以及哪些作者和国家对新分类群的描述最为丰富。该门纲中估计还有 10,000 多种物种有待描述，因此我们敦促环节动物工作者继续努力，并帮助培养新一代专注于这个生态重要群体的分类学家。
