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。这项工作将为修订大集子蚯蚓的系统分类提供新的信息，并为菲律宾群岛陆生水蛭、嵌套寡毛纲和陆生腹足类提供新的认识。实地工作将包括到该国北部和西部地区残存的小块原始低地和山地雨林进行多次收集。这项研究的电子产品将包括一个可在网上搜索的菲律宾环节动物数据库、一个大型图像档案、识别和研究辅助工具，以及一个有关该群岛蚯蚓（包括常见外来物种）的交互式密钥。

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.