Worm Links
Annelida
Geoff Read's Annelid Resources Page
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Introduction
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Research -
Support and information links for people who already know something about
annelids
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Taxonomy -
General background links and links to classification of various groups.
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Field Trips
- These "field trips" link you to annelid-related information and people
around the world.
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Polychaete
Researchers Online - (PRO) is a directory of addresses and research
interests
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What's New?
- The new information and feature to be found on this site.
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ANNELIDA-L -
a listserve for discussions of all things related to annelid worms. This link
includes a searchable index of the lists discussion.
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Meetings -
A list of information on past, present and future meetings regarding annelids.
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Bibliography
- An exhaustive collection of literature. Ward and Fauchald's database (2nd
edition, 1997) is a must for anyone studying polychaetes!
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Faunal
Lists - Lists of polychaete species from locations worldwide.
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Phylogeny
of the Annelida and their Allies - "The status of members of Phylum
Annelida and related phyla has been under scrutiny. Membership of Annelida has
varied since its inception as a group emerging from the Vermes in the early
19th century. In recent times the general view is that it contains polychaetes
and the clitellate oligochaetes and leeches, usually as three classes, or
latterly with the clitellates as one class or sub-phylum. But we may wonder if
the many and diverse polychaete families are a monophyletic group or a
miscellaneous hodge-podge? Are the oligochaetes just a small part of the
polychaetes? Should the category 'polychaete' be used at all? Can it be
defined? What about other worms with setae? Should the vestimentiferans and
pogonophorans be sister phyla or included in the polychaetes? What about the
echiurans? And what are the major groupings of the protostomes?" (Read, 2000)
Southern California Association of Marine Taxonomists (SCAMIT)
Introduction
Annelida
The Sessile Organisms Society of Japan
Journals dealing
with invertebrates
People Working on Worms (among other things)
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Torkild Bakken -
Nereididae and Sphaerodoridae.
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Dr.
Thomas Bartolomaeus - Comparative ultrastructural and developmental
studies of the body cavities and nephridia in Metazoa, excluding
Deuterostomia. Phylogeny of the Spiralia. Ultrastructure of larval
photoreceptors in Annelida. Morphogenesis of annelid setae and studies on the
phylogeny of the Annelida.
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Dr. M.
Nechama Ben-Eliahu - Community ecology. Levant biogeography, with
particular attention to process of Lessepsian migration in Polychaeta, e.g.,
monitoring the progressive extension of ranges of migrant taxa in the Levant
Basin, and the consequences for the indigenous biota. Polychaeta of the Levant
Basin, Suez Canal and Red Sea, but particular interest in the two families
with the most Lessepsian migrants, Serpulidae and Nereididae. The eastern
Mediterranean deep polychaete fauna. Presently working on Red Sea Serpulidae.
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Dr. Edward
B. Cutler - Systematics, zoogeography, and evolution of the Sipuncula.
Recently begun to work with the Echiura with a goal of trying to understand
and clarify their systematics and phylogeny.
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Dr. Thomas
Dahlgren - Phylogeny estimates of Chrysopetalidae (Polychaeta) by
means of analyses of morphological and molecular characters.Polychaets in the
high Arctic.
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Dr. Danny
Eibye-Jacobsen - Taxonomic and systematic studies on various groups of
polychaetous annelids, primarily members of the families Phyllodocidae,
Dorvilleidae, and Spionidae. Phylogenetic and ultrastructural studies,
primarily on Phyllodocidae, Dorvilleidae, Nerillidae, and Spionidae. Taxonomic
studies on polychaetous annelids from Arctic Canada, Iceland, the Faroe
Islands, and Thailand.
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Dr. Judy
Grassle - Marine benthic ecology; Larval dispersal and population
genetics of marine invertebrates; Biology of Capitella sibling species
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Dr. J.
Frederick Grassle - Relationship of sediment transport processes to
benthic community structure; Measurement of biodiversity especially in the
deep sea; Interdisciplinary studies of benthic ecosystems; Ecology
- Dr. Torleif Holthe -
Polychaete taxonomy, especially in the order Terebellida, marine
biogeography.
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Dr. Harry
ten Hove - Current Projects: revision of Hydroides, phylogeny of
Spiraserpula, revision of Filogranella, Red Sea serpulidae, serpulids
from cold seep and hydrothermal environments, New Zealand serpulidae, planning
an electronic key/database (CD-ROM) of fouling serpulidae with ETI, the Expert
center for Taxonomic Identification of the University of Amsterdam.
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Dr. Jørgen
B. Kirkegaard - Polychaete worms, deep-sea fauna.
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Dr. Jerry D.
Kudenov - Invertebrate zoology, marine biology, evolutionary
systematics of Amphinomida (Polychaeta) from world areas, the feeding ecology
of polychaetes, and the faunistics of Alaska polychaetes.
- Dr. Daniel Martin -
Biology, Ecology and Taxonomy of Macroinfaunal Marine Invertebrates, with
special regards to the Annelid Polychaetes.
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Dr.
Galena-Vantsetti Murina -
Sipuncula, Echiura (systematics, ecology and
distribution), Decapoda (systematics, biogeographia) (look on my site about
Guinean Crabs), Turbellaria (biology, ecology), meroplankton (pelagic larvae
of bottom invertebrates) of the Black and Mediterranean Seas (systematics,
season dynamics, distribution).
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Dr. Mary E.
Petersen - Systematics, taxonomy, biogeography and biology of marine
polychaete worms, especially the families Pholoidae, Chaetopteridae,
Cirratulidae and Fauveliopsidae.
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Dr. Greg
Rouse - Evolution of reproduction in marine metazoa, methods for
phylogenetic
reconstruction, and ending the use of the Linnean system of
nomenclature. Papers and Data by
Greg Rouse and collaborators.
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Dr.
Alexander Rzhavsky - Spirorbidae
Fun Stuff
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MicroAngela's
SEM Page -Explore familiar and unexpected views of the microscopic
world with these colorized images from electron microscopes at the University
of Hawaii.
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Photonic
Engineering by the Sea Mouse (Aphrodita)
- BIODIDAC a useful
repository of free biological images
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Wendell's Worm
World - Discovery.com has a kid-friendly site to tach them about the
role of earthworms in nature.
- Hydrothermal Vent Habitats
- Cold Seep Habitats
- Deep-Sea Pages
1, 2,
3
- Marine Biology
compiled by wormlab emeritus, Sean Kinane.
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More
Marine Biological and Oceanographic Links
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