RUI - A Terrestial Annelida and Terrestrial Gastropoda Biodiversity Surv ey of the Philippines

该项目旨在对菲律宾北部和西部进行陆地环节动物和陆地蜗牛生物多样性调查，以提供该国迅速消失的独特生物群的信息。这项工作将为修订巨型鞭毛虫的系统学提供新的信息，并提供关于菲律宾群岛陆生水蚤、线虫寡毛类和陆生腹足类的新知识。实地工作将包括多次前往该国北部和西部的古老低地和山地雨林的剩余小区域进行收集旅行。这项研究的电子产品将包括一个关于菲律宾环节动物的可在网上搜索的数据库，一个关于图像、识别和研究辅助工具的大型档案，以及一个关于该群岛蚯蚓的互动钥匙，包括常见的外来物种。

This project is designed to conduct a terrestrial Annelid and land snail biodiversity survey of the northern and western Philippines that will provide information on that nation's rapidly vanishing unique biota. The work will contribute new information towards revisionary systematics of the perichaetine megascolecid earthworms, and provide new knowledge of terrestrial leeches, Enchytraied oligochaetes, and terrestrial gastropods of the Phillipine island archipelago. Field work will consist of numerous collecting trips to the remaining small areas of old-growth lowland and montane rainforest in the northern and western parts of the country. The electronic products of the research will include a web-searchable database on the Philippine Annelida, a large archive of images, identification and study aids, and an interactive key to the earthworms of the archipelago, including common exotic species.