Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta

Errantia Audouin & H Milne Edwards, 1832

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subclass group names

Aciculata Rouse & Fauchald, 1997 non Linnaean subjective synonym

Children

Amphinomida
Eunicida
Phyllodocida Dales, 1962

Literature

original description

Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1832). [Part 1] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris. Sér. 1, 27: 337-447.

additional source

Struck, T. H. 2011. Direction of evolution within Annelida and the definition of Pleistoannelida. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49(4): 340-345

additional source

Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1971).[use for POLYCHAETA] Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta 1-594. IN: Dahl, Maria and Peus, Fritz (Ed.). Vol. 58. Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Maermalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena.

identification resource

Nygren, Arne; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2015). Ringmaskar: Havsborstmaskar, Annelida: Polychaeta. [ArtDatabanken, SLU, Uppsala]. ArtDatabanken. Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. [360 pp., checklist & keys, online pdf].

identification resource

Hartman, O. 1964. Polychaeta Errantia of Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, 3: 1-131.

identification resource

Hartman, O. 1968. Atlas of the errantiate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-828. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles.

identification resource

Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Errantia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=754174

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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