Pinder, A. 2010. Tools for identifying selected Australian aquatic oligochaetes (Clitellata: Annelida). Museum Victoria Science Reports 13: 1-26. Since Pinder and Brinkhurst (1994) produced a "preliminary" guide to identifying Australian limnic oligochaetes there have been numerous new species described and substantial insights made into oligochaete phylogenetics, the latter reflected in recent changes to oligochaete classification. This report updates Pinder and Brinkhurst (1994) by 1)

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... the taxonomy, 2) better describing and illustrating the characters and methods required to identify aquatic oligochaetes and 3) providing keys to the major groups of marine and freshwater aquatic oligochaetes (and some allied worms) and of all species of the subfamily Naidinae known from Australia. The impetus for this report was a workshop on aquatic invertebrate identification organised by La Trobe University and the Taxonomic Research and Information Network (TRIN).