A Taxonomic Information System for Nereididae (Annelida): morphological datasets supporting description, interactive identification and phylogenetic analysis of the family

Nereididae (Polychaeta)–A DELTA database of genera, and Australian species

Robin S. Wilson1,2 , Christopher J. Glasby3,4 , Torkild Bakken5

1 Sciences Department, Museums Victoria Research Institute, Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia

2 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

3 Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin NT 0801, Australia

4 Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia

5 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway

Corresponding author: Robin S. Wilson (rwilson@museum.vic.gov.au)

Scope

This Nereididae (Annelida) Delta database is the work of Robin Wilson, Torkild Bakken & Chris Glasby and was used to generate sections of Wilson et al. (2023a).  Status of genera and nominal subfamily placements follow WoRMS https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/.

The version distributed here includes only Nereididae genera and is part of the Wilson et al. (2023b) Zenodo repository which also includes other outputs: Nexus files as .nex and natural language output of taxon descriptions and character lists as .rtf files.   

Updates including fixes to any errors found, and including new taxa and new taxonomic revisions, will be uploaded to Zenodo as new versions (the doi above will resolve to the most recent version). We intend that future versions will include all Nereididae species known from Australia; and all Nereididae species known from bathyal-abyssal depths (~2,000 m and deeper).

This  repository contains an interactive key using the Delta Intkey software version by the Atlas of Living Australia (2014) but not yet that of Dallwitz (2020).

References

Atlas of Living Australia (2014) Open-delta.  A Java port of the Delta - DEscription Language for TAxonomy suite of applications into Java. Available from: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/open-delta (July 12, 2023).

Dallwitz MJ (2020) Installing and running the programs of the DELTA System. Reports, Division of Entomology CSIRO Australia. Available from: https://www.delta-intkey.com/www/programs.htm (January 31, 2023).

Wilson RS, Glasby CJ, Bakken T (2023a) The Nereididae (Annelida) – diagnoses, descriptions, and a key to the genera. ZooKeys 1182: 35–134. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1182.104258

Wilson RS, Bakken T, Glasby CJ (2023b) A Taxonomic Information System for Nereididae (Annelida): morphological datasets supporting description, interactive identification and phylogenetic analysis of the family. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7776745