North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Branchiostomatidae Bonaparte, 1846

AphiaID

196078 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196078)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Leptocardii

Synonymised names

Asymmetronidae · unaccepted

Branchiostomidae Bonaparte, 1846 · unaccepted

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Genus Asymmetron Andrews, 1893
Genus Branchiostoma Costa, 1834
Genus Epigonichthys Peters, 1876
Genus Amphioxus Yarrell, 1836 accepted as Branchiostoma Costa, 1834
Genus Asymetron accepted as Asymmetron Andrews, 1893 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Branchiostomatidae Bonaparte, 1846. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196078 on 2026-06-28

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Branchiostomatidae Bonaparte, 1846. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=196078 on 2026-06-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-27 19:49:34Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-05-06 10:14:28Z

changed

Nishikawa, Teruaki

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Introduced: alien

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Branchiostomidae Bonaparte, 1846)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Branchiostomatidae)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Branchiostomidae Bonaparte, 1846)
To ITIS