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

Aeolosomatidae Levinsen, 1884

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aeolosoma Ehrenberg, 1828
Hystricosoma Michaelsen, 1926
Rheomorpha Ruttner-Kolisko, 1955

original description	Levinsen, G.M.R. (1884 (for year 1883)). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn. 45(1883): 95-354 + plates II-III.
original description	Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. [Book]. 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2. 354 pp.
additional source	Brinkhurst, R.O.; Cook, D.G. (1966). Studies on the North American aquatic Oligochaeta III: Lumbriculidae and additional notes and records of other families. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 118(1): 1-33.
status source	Struck, T.H.; Purschke, G. (2005). The sister group relationship of Aeolosomatidae and Potamodrilidae (Annelida: “Polychaeta”) — a molecular phylogenetic approach based on 18S rDNA and cytochrome oxidase I. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 243(4): 281-293.

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Aeolosomatidae Levinsen, 1884. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:558773

Dr. Emilia Rota. Aeolosomatidae Levinsen, 1884. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/1d3b872c-a304-4240-9050-38fc62d25ab1