Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Pilidiophora > Order Heteronemertea

Valenciniidae Hubrecht, 1879

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Baseodiscidae*	Bürger, 1904	synonym
*Valenciniaidae*	Hubrecht, 1879	synonym

Children

Baseodiscinae Bürger, 1904
Oxypolellinae Chernyshev, 1995
Valenciniinae Hubrecht, 1879

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: バレンシニア科

Literature

basis of record	Chernyshev, A. V. (2011). Sravnitel'naia Morfologiia, Sistematika i Filogeniia Nemertin [Comparative morphology, systematics and phylogeny of the nemerteans]. Vladivostok, Dal'nauka. 1-309.
basis of record	Kajihara, H.; Abukawa, S.; Chernyshev, A. V. (2022). Exploring the basal topology of the heteronemertean tree of life: establishment of a new family, along with turbotaxonomy of Valenciniidae (Nemertea: Pilidiophora: Heteronemertea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(1): 503–548.
status source	Chernyshev, A. V. (1995). O vyssikh taksonakh nemertin s obzorom sistemy podklassa Anopla [On the higher taxa of the phylum Nemertea with the taxonomic review of the subclass Anopla]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 74(1): 7–18.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Valenciniidae Hubrecht, 1879. 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:122316