Glasby Christopher J, Biriukova Olga, Martin Patrick, Dyne Geoffrey R, Utevsky Serge, Wilson Robin S
Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin NT 0801, Australia Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory Darwin Australia.
Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum Sydney Australia.
Zookeys. 2025 Jul 31;1247:217-403. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1247.137606. eCollection 2025.
Phylum Annelida are ubiquitous metazoans found in almost every terrestrial and aquatic habitat on Earth. Historically, taxonomic studies on the phylum have been focused largely on its majorgroups, polychaetes, oligochaetes and leeches, so that while family-level keys for each group are available, no single-source identification guide exists to the world's annelid families. Here, the first illustrated linear key to annelid families is provided and family-level descriptions and diagnoses that distinguish individuals of each family from those of other families in the phylum are updated. This information is generated from an annelid DELTA database of 334 characters and 166 mostly family-level taxa. A link is provided to downloadable software (ANNiKEY Interactive) allowing the same data to be interrogated using the open-source DELTA program Intkey, which enables both interactive identification and taxonomic query functionality. For each family-level taxon, a diagnosis, full description, links to taxonomic data at the World Register of Marine Species, illustrations of diagnostic features, and a summary of the recent literature, including a list of published keys to genera and species are provided.
环节动物门是地球上几乎所有陆地和水生生境中都存在的后生动物。历史上，对该门的分类学研究主要集中在其主要类群，即多毛纲、寡毛纲和蛭纲，因此虽然每个类群都有科级检索表，但尚无世界环节动物科的单一来源鉴定指南。在此，提供了首个环节动物科的图解式线性检索表，并更新了科级描述和诊断，以区分该门中每个科的个体与其他科的个体。这些信息来自一个包含334个特征和166个主要科级分类单元的环节动物DELTA数据库。还提供了一个可下载软件（ANNiKEY Interactive）的链接，该软件允许使用开源DELTA程序Intkey查询相同的数据，该程序具有交互式鉴定和分类学查询功能。对于每个科级分类单元，都提供了诊断、完整描述、世界海洋物种登记册上分类学数据的链接、诊断特征的插图以及近期文献的摘要，包括已发表的属和种检索表列表。
