Hi, some of the big names for Perineries are Chris Glasby, Patricia Hutchings, Robin Wilson and Torkild Bakken. You can dnld their papers from various sources in the internet.
I've read some of their articles, But they weren't so helpful for me. that You can help me on this?
I'm not Perineries expert. Sorry. But if Perinereis you can look at Glasby and Hsieh on Perineries from Taiwan, they give quite detail descriptions which you can use in your work. Wilson also produced taxonomic key on Perinereis.... try to find it
Thank you so much for your help & i hope if you find wilson or glasby email address give to me .because i found 2 email address but both of them is inactive.
Hi Mehrnoosh,
There is a clear need for more (accessible) literature on the topic, but try the following references.
The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 28 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles. 188 pp.
An identification guide to the larval marine invertebrates of the pacific northwest
Shanks, Alan https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/6123
Hope these help!
Hi Mehrnooh,
You may get some information from these books you can try to get.
1. Benham, W., 1896. Archiannelida, Polychaeta and Myzostomaria. In: The Cambridge Natural History (Harmer, S.F. & A.E. Shipley, eds.). MacMillan and Co., Ltd. London.
2. Chambers, S. and P. Garwood. 1992. Polychaetes from Scottish waters. A guide to identification. Part 3. Family Nereidae. Royal Scottish Museum Studies 1992
3. Day JH (1967) A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa, Part 1 (Errantia) and II (Sedentaria), Trustees of the British Musium (Natural History), London pp 878
4. Hartmann-Schröder, G., 1996. Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta. Tierwelt Deutschlands, 58: 1-648.
5. Imajima, I., 1972. Review of the annelid worms of the familie Nereidae (sic) of Japan, with descriptions of five new species or subspecies. Bull. nat. Sci. Mus., 15(1): 37-153.
Probably you might have this article? Here with I attached attached.
With Regards
Naidu,SA
Hi Mehrnoosh Darya.., now i am working on Nereididae,... i fully agreed the words of Izwandy Idris..... Chris Glasby, Patricia Hutchings, Robin Wilson and Torkild Bakken are the experts in this field .If you want i can help u to contact them . For Perinereis , you can look at BAKKEN & ROBIN S. WILSON on Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths, they give adequate details which you can use in ur research. . If u contact me in my mail '[email protected]' i can send this paper......... good luck
Hi Mehrnoosh,
I have some limited experience with identifying nerieds but I think the best way is by examining the paragnaths on the proboscis. Perinereis has patch-like paragnaths on the first oral ring and centric ones on the second. There are some good online resources.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/taxinfo/browse/genera/perinereis.htm
Hope this helps!
dears Naidu S.A. & Daniel Pratt
thanks so much . But I can not get access to this articles, Naidu! Do you have them?
Do you have a specific region you are identifying the worms from? We have many polychaete keys for the western Atlantic in my lab that I'd be happy to provide references for if they are applicable.
HI Mehrnooh,
Use this link , here in search option is there you should type Genus or Species (Ex: perinereis ) so by this way you may get some information.
http://www.biosearch.in/publicAdvanceSearchList.php
I suggest you that contact Dr. Baban Ingole Who is Chief Scientist working on Benthic diversity - He may give some valuable suggestions. mail. ID [email protected]
Hi dear jeff
yah,i am working on polychaeta in north coat of persian gulf and oman sea. But in here there is no clear source about them.
I am very thankful for your help.
Hi, did you check the thesis in University of Tehran about Polycheata? I think there is also a key on that thesis (I think two Ms student worked on that phylum) but I do not remember the family! Also one of PhD student is working on the subject.
hi Roghaye
I do not know how to find them. You can help me about this?
Hi ! This Dr. Sabapathi Arularasan. I wish You to contact Dr. Olivia Fernando, Professor and Senior Scientist In Marine Benthic fauna from CAS in Marine Biology, Annamalai University..Tamilnadu State, INDIA
dear Mehrnosh some Msc student in Chabahar maritime university work on marine polycheats of Oman sea you can contact them, there is a good identification key in this uni
hi, there are several useful key books on the polychaetes of indian ocean and ... .
the best one for you is:
A MONOGRAPH ON THE POLYCHAETA OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
BY J. H. DAY, 1967
you can download it through this link:
http://archive.org/download/monographonpolyc01dayj/monographonpolyc01dayj.pdf
what are families of your new species? i could introduce you specialists on those families.
I also recommend "A monograph of the Polychaeta of Soithern Africa by J.H. Day - two volumes" published by the British Museum of Natural History or write to Dr Gordan Patteson, also of the same Museum. I don't know his email contact.
Hi Mehrnooh,
I have the same issue on finding good taxonomic books to use for my work in Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) for marine benthic fauna species. Especially since Cyprus is near the Suez Canal and several exotic species are entering Mediterranean Sea. I find really helpfull for family level ID, The polychaete worms: Definitions and keys to the orders, families and general of Fauchald, 1997 (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles country). I use it in combination with other books such as Day, Fauvel (faune de France) and with a lot of older and recently published articles. I suggest you break down all the literature you find into families and try to find as much as articles/books on each one of them so that it will help u in the ID of species. It was really helpfull for me as it made ID much easier and quicklier :-)
I think the above response of Maria is excellent. This will take you a long way! You can also communicate with DrFlorence of the Iziko SouthAfrican Museum. Check its website for the address.
May be you can contact to PhD. Rolando Bastida-Zavala. He job with polychaeta. Review your researchgate profile.
best regards,
Http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/taxinfo/browse/family/hesionidae.htm
You may also try using POLiKEY (see instructions on how to use this software at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/polikey/)
POLiKEY is an interactive key and information retrieval system for polychaete families and higher taxa and contains 104 taxa and 134 characters. The system comprises an interactive identification programme, based on Intkey, descriptions and illustrations of all polychaete families and higher taxa, a glossary of technical terms, and a comprehensive bibliography. It system provides for:
- identifications of adult polychaetes from any part of the world to family or higher taxa;
- diagnostic and full descriptions of families and higher taxa;
- images of selected species representing each taxon (more than 200 line drawings and - color photos of living polychaetes and museum specimens); over 300 color-enhanced character images; and
- information on the taxonomy, biology and ecology of polychaetes.
POLiKEY was made to assist biologists to identify the families and higher taxa of polychaetes because:
- there is no existing key to higher taxa of polychaetes;
- existing keys to families are either difficult to use or do not include all the families1;
- accurate family-level identification of polychaetes is critical for ecological and environmental studies;
- polychaete biologists need a tool enabling rapid access to comparative systematic information on polychaetes.
other author that job with polychaeta is Villalobos-Guerrero Tulio F,
best regards,
Depending on the study area you can use some on-line tools such as the Marine Species Identification Portal (http://species-identification.org/identify_species.php) or POLiKEY (as suggested by Dr. Daniel Martin). I read that your study area is in Cyprus, so Fauvel (1923, 1927) is always a very good option, as well as the works from Dr. Çinar. All the best
Fauvel (1923) is available online from http://archive.org/details/FauneDeFrance5
Fauvel (1927) as well as several other resources can be directly downloaded from: http://www.faunedefrance.org/BibliothequeVirtuelleNumerique
Enjoy it!
I agree with Dr. Martins comments but take care with trusting Fauvel's identifications, as many of them are out of date. A complementary suggestion may be to preliminarily check the identifications made using Fauvel's Faune de France books at WoRMS http://www.marinespecies.org
Hi,
specially for Persian and Oman gulf, the best key is Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran. you can find these book series in fisheries institute. furthermore, there are several good books and papers in Tehran university, faculty of science.
I have found 'The polychaete worms' by Kristian Fauchald usefull. Mostly use a danish key ('Havbørsteorme', two-volume set) that is out of print and impossible to get a kopy of.
The polychaete worms is an excellent work and may be used as a preliminary key to families and genera, but polychaete taxonomy has advanced a lot since 1977, so many taxa has been modified, renamed and created. Certainly for a different reason than Fauvel's Faune de France, but I also recommend not to remain on Kristian's 1977 taxonomy and take a look on modern, more specialized papers. In this sense, it may be useful, for instance the paper by Wehe, T., & Fiege, D. (2002). Annotated checklist of the polychaete species of the seas surrounding the Arabian Peninsula: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Gulf. Fauna of Arabia, 19, 7-238.
Wehe and Fiedge paper is available at http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/aquazool/mev2/wehefiege.pdf
Dear Mehrnossh
It depends on the region you are engaged in. If the target is the Persian Gulf, there are some useful papers on polychaetes in the area.
The North Sea Macorbenthos CD is really useful - obviously it is from a different region but it would get you down to genus level for most things and the key is very easy to use (interactive with pictures and descriptions of the discriminating features). I have attached the link to the CD version below but I am sure there is an online version somewhere too. Perhaps this has been incorporated into the marine species portal now (it has been a while since I have used it myself)
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/animal+sciences/book/978-3-540-14808-1
The on-line version for North-Sea polychaetes may be found here:
http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=macrobenthos_polychaeta&menuentry=plaatjessleutel
Of course this is not for the species in your area, but I agree with Bryony Pearce that such keys often work world-wide for higher taxonomic levels. For identification down to the species level general works for European species such as Fauvel 1923 or the German Hartmann-Schröder 1996 often require checking with more recent specialist literature - mostly at the family or genus level.
Dear Mehrnoosh
I have an application that is useful for identifying Polychaete worms. This software will ask you questions about the shape of your worm that eventually will lead to the genus or species. Due to high volume, I can not send it for you but according to the following references maybe you will find it.
Wilson, R.S., Hutchings, P.A., Glasby, C.J., 2003. Ploychaetes, an interactive identification guide. Musium Victoria, Australian Museum, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Terriritory.
Great! I guess all anwers not only helping Mehrnoosh, but others as well. Hopefully Mehrnoosh manage to move on her identification and so do us.
Its intkey 5.
I attach a picture of that. This software is extremely accurate. I identified all of my polychaete worms with this software.
there are different taxonomic guide in internet, the Kristian Fauchald paper of 1977 is a good choise
www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf
That is the link
http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf
Dear Mehrnoosh,
You can get many useful information from this book attached herein.
Goodluck
Polychaete Worms - Smithsonian Institution
https://repository.si.edu › bitstream › handle › PinkBook-plain
by K Fauchald - 1977