Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida

Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Questidae*	Hartman, 1966	heterotypic synonym

Children

Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977
Microrbinia Hartman, 1965
Naineris Blainville, 1828
Orbinia Quatrefages, 1865
Orbiniinae Hartman, 1942
Phylo Kinberg, 1866
Protoaricia Czerniavsky, 1881
Protoariciinae Hartman, 1957
Questa Hartman, 1966
Schroederella Laubier, 1962
Scoloplos Blainville, 1828

Literature

original description	Hartman, O. 1942. A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University, 8(1): 1-98.
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
additional source	Bleidorn, Christoph 2005. Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) based on molecular data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 144(1): 59-73.
additional source	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta

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Citation

Read, G. (2014). Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:902