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Annelida

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthobdellea
Annelida incertae sedis
Aphanoneura
Branchiobdellea
Clitellata Michaelsen, 1919
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Sipuncula Stephen, 1965

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1802 [privately published, reprinted 1906]). Discours d'Ouverture, Prononcé le 27 floréal An 10, au Muséum dHistoire naturelle. Recherches sur l'organisation des corps vivans. [reprint 1906] Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique. (5th series) 40: 483-517 [Les Annelides p. 494].
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Read, Geoffrey B. (2023). Kingdom Animalia, phylum Annelida (bristleworms & kin). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 136: 283–297, Chapter 18 In: Kelly, Michelle, Mills, Sadie, Terezow, Marianna G., Sim-Smith, Carina & Nelson, Wendy (Eds), Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand.
additional source	Rouse, Greg W.; Giribet, Gonzalo. (2016). Phylum Annelida: The Segmented (and Some Unsegmented) Worms. [edited book]. Chapt 14. p. 531-602 In Invertebrates. Third Edition. R. C. Brusca; W. Moore; S. M. Shuster. Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinauer Associates.
additional source	Rouse, Greg; Pleijel, Fredrik; Tilic, Ekin. (2022). Annelida. [book]. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 418pp.
additional source	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
taxonomy source	Schiffer, Philipp H.; Robertson, Helen E.; Telford, Maximilian J. (2018). Orthonectids Are Highly Degenerate Annelid Worms. Current Biology. 28(12): 1970-1974.e3.
taxonomy source	Magalhães, Wagner F.; Hutchings, Pat; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro; Martin, Patrick; Schmelz, Rüdiger M.; Wetzel, Mark J.; Wiklund, Helena; Maciolek, Nancy J.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y.; Williams, Jason D. (2021). Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through Zootaxa and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. Zootaxa. 4979(1): 190-211.
biology source	Read, Geoffrey B. (2019). A History of Annelida Research. [book chapter]. 3-36 In: (eds Purschke, Westheide, Böggemann. Handbook of Zoology. Annelida Volume 1: Annelida Basal Groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria I. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.