Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > 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 Lamarck, 1818
Lysibranchia Cantone, 1983
Lysidice Lamarck, 1818
Marphysa Quatrefages, 1866
Nicidion Kinberg, 1865
Palola Gray in Stair, 1847
Paucibranchia Molina-Acevedo, 2018

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: イソメ科

Literature

original description	Berthold, A.A. (1827). Naturliche Familien des Thierreichs aus dem Franzosischen. Mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen. Landes-Industrie Comptoirs, Weimar, x + 606 pp.
additional source	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, 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.
additional source	Zanol, Joana; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Struck, Torsten H.; Fauchald, Kristian. (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.
taxonomy source	Fauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 523: 1-422.
identification resource	Zanol, Joana; Hutchings, Pat A.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2020). Eunice sensu lato (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa. 4748(1): 1-43.