Phyllodocidae

Phyllodocidae is a family of polychaete worms. Worms in this family live on the seabed and may burrow under the sediment.

Phyllodocidae
Phyllodoce lineata
with everted pharynx
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Annelida
Class:
Polychaeta
Subclass:
Errantia
Order:
Phyllodocida
Suborder:
Phyllodociformia
Family:
Phyllodocidae

Ørsted, 1843 [1]
Genera
See text

Characteristics

Members of the Phyllodocidae are characterised by an eversible pharynx and leaf-like dorsal cirri. The head has a pair of antennae at the front, a pair of ventral palps and a single median antenna known as a "nuchal papilla". There is a pair of nuchal organs and there may or may not be a pair of eyes. The first two or three body segments may be part-fused and bear up to four pairs of tentacular cirri. The remaining body segments each bear leaf-like dorsal and ventral cirri, the dorsal ones being larger. The parapodia are uniramous or biramous, and chaetae are present on all but the first segment.[2]

Genera

The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera :[1]

  • Subfamily Eteoninae Bergström, 1914
    • Genus Eteone Savigny, 1818
    • Genus Eulalia Savigny, 1822
    • Genus Eumida Malmgren, 1865
    • Genus Galapagomystides Blake, 1985
    • Genus Hesionura Hartmann-Schröder, 1958
    • Genus Hypereteone Bergström, 1914
    • Genus Mystides Théel, 1879
    • Genus Protomystides Czerniavsky, 1882
    • Genus Pseudomystides Bergström, 1914
    • Genus Pterocirrus Claparède, 1868
    • Genus Sige Malmgren, 1865
  • Subfamily Notophyllinae Pleijel, 1991
    • Genus Austrophyllum Bergström, 1914
    • Genus Clavadoce Hartman, 1936
    • Genus Nereiphylla Blainville, 1828
    • Genus Notophyllum Örsted, 1843
  • Subfamily Phyllodocinae Örsted, 1843
    • Genus Chaetoparia Malmgren, 1867
    • Genus Levisettius Thompson, 1979 †
    • Genus Paranaitis Southern, 1914
    • Genus Phyllodoce Lamarck, 1818

References
  1. Fauchald, Kristian (2008). Read G, Fauchald K (eds.). "Phyllodocidae Örsted, 1843". World Polychaeta database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  2. Australian Biological Resources Study (2000). Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis. Csiro Publishing. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-643-06571-0.

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  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Phyllodocidae Örsted, 1843". www.marinespecies.org.
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