Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Echiura > Order Echiuroidea > Suborder Echiurida

Echiuridae Quatrefages, 1847

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Echiurinae*	Quatrefages, 1847	orthographic variant; alternate representation

Children

Echiurus Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: キタユムシ科; キタユムシ科

Literature

original description	Quatrefages, Armand de. (1847). Etudes sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchement des Annelés. Mémoire sur l'Echiure de Gaertner (Echiurus gaertnerii Nob.). Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, 3rd Series, Zoologie. 7: 307-343, plate 6.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Echiura, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 178
additional source	Fisher, W. K. (1946). Echiuroid worms of the North Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 96: 215–292, plates 20–37.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
taxonomy source	Biseswar, Ramlall. (2019). The echiuran fauna of southern Africa (Class: Echiura, Phylum: Annelida). African Zoology. 54(2): 73–90.