Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Eunicida

Eunicidae Berthold, 1827

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Euniphysidae*	Shen & Wu, 1991	synonym

Children

Eunice Cuvier, 1817
Euniphysa Wesenberg-Lund, 1949
Leodice Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Lysidice Lamarck, 1818
Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865
Nicidion Kinberg, 1865
Palola Gray in Stair, 1847

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	Orensanz, José María 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.
additional source	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta
additional source	Zanol, J.; Halanych, K. M.; Struck, T. H.; Fauchald, K. 2010. Phylogeny of the bristle worm family Eunicidae (Eunicida, Annelida) and the phylogenetic utility of noncongruent 16S, COI and 18S in combined analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(2): 660-676.

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Citation

Zanol, J.; Read, G. (2014). Eunicidae Berthold, 1827. 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:966