Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Cirratuliformia

Cirratulidae Carus, 1863

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aphelochaeta Blake, 1991
Archidice
Caulleriella Chamberlin, 1919
Chaetozone Malmgren, 1867
Cirratulus Lamarck, 1801
Cirriformia Hartman, 1936
Dodecaceria Örsted, 1843
Fauvelicirratulus Çinar & Petersen, 2011
Monticellina Laubier, 1961
Protocirrineris Czerniavsky, 1881
Tharyx Webster & Benedict, 1887
Timarete Kinberg, 1866

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: red threads worms sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: red threads worms

Literature

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	Rosenberg, G. & R. E. Petit. (1987). Ryckholt’s Mélanges Paléontologiques, 1851-1862, with a new name for Tudicola H. & A. Adams, non Ryckholt. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 53-64.
additional source	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta
additional source	Glasby, C.J.; Read, G.B.; Lee, K.E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 312-358.

Genbank

External Links

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Cirratulidae Carus, 1863. 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:919