North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

WoRMS taxon details

Eunicida

AphiaID

895 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:895)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Errantia

Direct children (13)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Family Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919
Family Eunicidae Berthold, 1827
Family Hartmaniellidae Imajima, 1977
Family Lumbrineridae Schmarda, 1861
Family Oenonidae Kinberg, 1865
Family Onuphidae Kinberg, 1865
Family Arabellidae Hartman, 1944 accepted as Oenonidae Kinberg, 1865 (subjective synonym)
Family Euniphysidae Shen & Wu, 1991 accepted as Eunicidae Berthold, 1827 (Monogeneric grouping (Euniphysa))
Family Iphitimidae Fauchald, 1970 accepted as Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919 (subjective synonym)
Family Lysaretidae Kinberg, 1865 accepted as Lumbrineridae Schmarda, 1861 (subjective synonym)
Family Pseudophyllodocidae Bidenkap, 1895 accepted as Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919 (subjective synonym, for a genus synonym not used as stem of family name)
Family Staurocephalidae Kinberg, 1865 accepted as Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919 (based on an invalid genus)
Superfamily Eunicea (uncertain > nomen dubium, Superfluous name and rank)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Eunicida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=895 on 2025-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

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Fauchald, Kristian

2010-03-03 00:50:30Z

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Read, Geoffrey

2014-02-18 00:49:53Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

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Nomenclature

basis of record Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Orensanz, J.M. (1990). The Eunicemorph polychaete annelids from Antarctic and Subantarctic Seas. With addenda to the Eunicemorpha of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and the Southern Indian Ocean. Antarctic Research Series. 52: 1-183., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/AR052p0001/summary [details]

identification resource George, J. D.; Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1985). Polychaetes: British Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 32. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07580-1. vii, 221 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Orensanz, J.M. (1990). The Eunicemorph polychaete annelids from Antarctic and Subantarctic Seas. With addenda to the Eunicemorpha of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and the Southern Indian Ocean. Antarctic Research Series. 52: 1-183., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/AR052p0001/summary [details]