List of Annelida of Ireland

2 species

First segment projects forward of the head. Pisione.

1 species

"Felt"-covered scale worms. Aphrodita, Laetmonice, Palmyra (Palmyridae)

4 species including

• Aphrodita aculeata (sea mouse)

29 species including

• Alentia gelatinosa
• Gattyana cirrhosa
• Lepidonotus squamatus

Minute scale worms. Dorsal scales ringed. Pholoe, Pholoides

4 species

Scale worms (with dorsal scales) and compound neurosetae. Sigalion, Psammolyce, Sthenelais.

8 species including

• Sigalion mathildae

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

1 species

• Chaetopterus variopedatus

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

1 species

Slender pelagic forms with giant eyes. Vanadis, Alciopa.

3 species

Short pelagic forms. Lopadorrhynchus.

5 species

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

2 species

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

2 species

Cylindrical forms with a conical prostomium and four jaws. Glycera, Hemipodus.

1 species

• Glycera alba

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

3 species

Dorsal rows of spherical tubercles. Sphaerodorum.

4 species

10 species

1 species

38 species including

• Haplosyllis spongicola (sponge worm)
• Sphaerosyllis levantina
• Syllis prolifera

10 species including

• Alitta succinea (cinder worm)
• Alitta virens (sandworm)
• Hediste diversicolor (ragworm)
• Platynereis dumerilii
• Eunereis longissima

11 species including

• Nephtys cirrosa

3 species

1 species

1 species

8 species

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

5 species

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

3 species

A Eunicida group with multiple jaw elements. Dorvillea, Ophryotrocha

6 species including

• Protodorvillea kefersteini

3 species

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

13 species

1 species

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

1 species

31 species including

• Aonides paucibranchiata
• Scolelepis bonnieri
• Scolelepis squamata
• Spiophanes bombyx

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

5 species

12 species including

• Cirratulus cirratus

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

1 species

Papillated body and cross-barred setae. Flabelligera, Diplocirrus, Brada.

4 species including

• Diplocirrus glaucus
• Diplocirrus incognitus

1 species

9 species including

• Heteromastus filiformis

3 species including

• Arenicola marina (blow lungworm)

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

9 species including

• Ophelina acuminata
• Thoracophelia flabellifera
• Ophelia limacina

Maggot-like or anteriorly inflated group with a small T-shaped prostomium. Scalibregma, Hyboscolex.

4 species including

• Scalibregma inflatum

1 species

• Nerilla antennata

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

2 species

Minute forms without setae and with a flexible tentacle pair (near-frontal, but separated). They live in spaces between sediment grains. Protodrilus.

1 species

• Dinophilus taeniatus

1 species

2 species

3 species

3 species, including

• Sabellaria alveolata (honeycomb worm)
• Sabellaria spinulosa (Ross worm)
• Sabella spallanzanii (feather duster worm)

Forms with no posterior notosetae and usually with simple, transversely-arranged gills. Ampharete, Melinna

5 species including

• Ampharete acutifrons

Resemble Terebellidae but have long-handled hooks. Terebellides.

2 species

23 species, including

• Lanice conchilega
• Thelepus cincinnatus
• Lagis koreni (trumpet worm)

19 species including

• Sabella pavonina (peacock worm)

8 species, including

• Janua pagenstecheri
• Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Australian tubeworm)
• Serpula vermicularis (red tubeworm)
• Spirobranchus triqueter
• Spirobranchus lamarckii

Small asymmetric fan worms with coiled calcareous tubes cemented to algae and rock. Spirorbis.

8 species, including

• Spirorbis spirorbis (sinistral spiral tubeworm)

1 species

Class Aphanoneura

• Aeolosoma hemprichi
• Aeolosoma variegatum

Class Clitellata

Subclass Oligochaeta

1 species

1 species

26 species ^[2]

• Allolobophora chlorotica (green worm)
• Allolobophoridella eiseni
• Aporrectodea caliginosa (grey worm)
• Aporrectodea cupulifera
• Aporrectodea icterica
• Aporrectodea limicola
• Aporrectodea longa
• Aporrectodea rosea (rosy-tipped worm)
• Dendrobaena attemsi
• Dendrobaena hortensis (European nightcrawler)
• Dendrobaena octaedra
• Dendrobaena veneta
• Dendrodrilus rubidus (red wiggler)
• Dendrodrilus subrubicundus
• Eisenia fetida (brandling worm)
• Eisenia parva
• Eiseniella tetraedra
• Helodrilus oculatus
• Lumbricus castaneus
• Lumbricus festivus (Quebec worm)
• Lumbricus friendi
• Lumbricus rubellus (red earthworm)
• Lumbricus terrestris (common earthworm)
• Murchieona minuscula
• Octolasion cyaneum
• Octolasion lacteum
• Satchellius mammalis

96 species

50 species

5 species

Class Clitellata

Subclass Hirudinea

5 species

1 species

• Hirudo medicinalis (European medicinal leech)