Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia

Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Alentiana Hartman, 1942
Allmaniella McIntosh, 1885
Antinoe Kinberg, 1856
Bathyeliasona Pettibone, 1976
Bathyfauvelia Pettibone, 1976
Bathynoe Ditlevsen, 1917
Drieschia
Gesiellinae Muir, 1982
Gorgoniapolynoe Pettibone, 1991
Halosydna Kinberg, 1856
Heteropolynoe Bidenkap, 1907
Lagisca Malmgren, 1866
Lepidastheniinae Pettibone, 1989
Lepidonotinae Willey, 1902
Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971
Polaruschakovinae Pettibone, 1976
Polynoinae Kinberg, 1856
Pseudohalosydna
Wilsoniella Pettibone, 1993

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English-United States: scaleworms

Literature

original description	Malmgren, A. J. 1867. Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Groenlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingfors. 127pp, & 115 plates
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	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta
additional source	Barnich, R.; Fiege, D. 2003. The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 559: 167pp.
additional source	Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856].
identification resource	Barnich, Ruth; Gambi, Maria Christina; Fiege, Dieter. 2012. Revision of the genus Polyeunoa McIntosh, 1885 (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Zootaxa *(3523): 25-38
identification resource	Pettibone, Marian H. 1969. Review of some species referred to Scalisetosus McIntosh (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82: 1-30.
identification resource	Chambers, S.J.; Muir, A.I. (1997). Polychaetes: British Chrysopetaloidea, Pisionoidea and Aphroditoidea. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series). 54: 1-202.

Taxon found in 242 publications.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2014). Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867. 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:939