Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Sabellida > Family Serpulidae

Spirorbinae Chamberlin, 1919

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Circeini
Januini Knight-Jones, 1978
Paralaeospirini Knight-Jones, 1978
Pileolariini
Romanchellini P. Knight-Jones, 1978
Spirorbini Chamberlin, 1919

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: spiraalkokerwormen sources: Eneman, E. (1984). Uit het Natuurhistorisch Archief [From the Natural History Archive]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 4-17

Japanese: ウズマキゴカイ

Literature

original description	Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 48: 1-514.
additional source	Vine, Peter J. (1971). Studies on the biology and zoogeography of Spirorbinae. [thesis]. School of Biological Sciences, University of Swansea, Ph. D. thesis. pagination not known.
additional source	Bailey, Julie H. (1969). Methods of brood protection as a basis for the reclassification of the Spirorbinae (Serpulidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London. 48: 387-407.
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.
taxonomy source	Pixell, Helen L. M. (1912). Polychaeta from the Pacific coast of North America. Part I. Serpulidae, with a revised table of classification of the genus Spirorbis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. [1912 part 3-4]: 784-805, plates 87-89 [follow p.784].
taxonomy source	Vine, Peter J. (1977). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 68: 1-68.
taxonomy source	Caullery, Maurice; Mesnil, Felix. (1897). Études sur la morphologie comparée et la phylogénie des espèces chez les Spirorbes. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique. 30: 185-233, plates 7-10.
taxonomy source	Pillai, T. Gottfried. (1970). Studies on a collection of Spirorbids from Ceylon, together with a critical review and revision of Spirorbid systematics, and an account of their phylogeny and zoogeography. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences). 8(2): 100-172.
taxonomy source	Bush, Katharine J. (1904). [Spirorbis from Japan section] in: Moore, J. P.; Bush, K. J. Sabellidae and Serpulidae from Japan, with descriptions of new species of Spirorbis. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 56:157-178, plates 11-12.
identification resource	Rzhavsky, Alexander V.; Kupriyanova, Elena K.; Sikorski, Andrei V.; Dahle, Salve. (2014). Calcareous tubeworms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) of the Arctic Ocean. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow. 191 p. [ISBN 978-5-87317-988-6].
biology source	Rouse, Greg W.; Macdonald, Tara A.; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2024). Molecular and Morphological Phylogenies of Spirorbinae (Serpulidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) and the Evolution of Brooding Modes. Diversity. 16(4): 237: 1-17.