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

Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Afrenulata*	Webb, 1969	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Athecanephria*	Ivanov, 1955	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Frenulata*	Webb, 1969	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Lamellibrachiidae*	Webb, 1969	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Lamellisabellidae*	Uschakov, 1933	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Monilifera*	Ivanov, 1991	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Obturata*	Jones, 1981	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Oligobrachiidae*	Ivanov, 1957	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Perviata*	Jones, 1981	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Pogonophora*	Johansson, 1937	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Polybrachiidae*	Ivanov, 1952	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Sclerolinidae*	Webb, 1964	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Thecanephria*	Ivanov, 1955	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Vestimentifera*	Webb, 1969	synonym; nom. superfl.

Children

Diplobrachia Ivanov, 1960
Lamellibrachia Webb, 1969
Lamellisabella Uschakov, 1933
Nereilinum Ivanov, 1961
Oligobrachia Ivanov, 1957
Polybrachia Ivanov, 1952
Sclerolinum Southward, 1961
Siboglinum Caullery, 1914

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: beard worms sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Bartträger; Bartwürmer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: シボグリヌム科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: skäggmaskar

Literature

original description	Caullery, M. 1914. Sur les Siboglinidae, type nouveau d'invertébrés receuillis par l'expédition du Siboga. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. 158: 2014-2017.
additional source	Li, Yuanning; Kocot, Kevin M.; Whelan, Nathan V.; Santos, Scott R.; Waits, Damien S.; Thornhill, Daniel J.; Halanych, Kenneth M.;. (2017). Phylogenomics of tubeworms (Siboglinidae, Annelida) and comparative performance of different reconstruction methods. Zoologica Scripta. 46(2): 200-213.
additional source	Caullery, M. 1914. Sur les Siboglinidae, type nouveau d'Invertébrés receuilli par l'expédition du Siboga. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 39: 350-353.
additional source	van der Land, J.; Southward, E. (2001). Pogonophora, 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. 235
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.
additional source	Sherlock, Emma, Neal, Lenka; Glover, Adrian. (2015). Sherlock, E., Neal, L. & Glover, A. (2015) 100 years of deep-sea tube worms [Siboglinidae: Annelida] in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural Science Collections. 2: 47-53.
additional source	Southward, Eve C.; Andersen, Ann C.; Hourdez, Stéphane. 2011. Lamellibrachia anaximandri n. sp., a new vestimentiferan tubeworm (Annelida) from the Mediterranean, with notes on frenulate tubeworms from the same habitat. Zoosystema 33(3): 245-279.
redescription	Caullery, M. 1944. Siboglinum Caullery, 1914. Type nouveau d'invertebres, d'affinites a preciser. Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900, 25: 1-26.
status source	Rouse, G.W. (2001). A cladistic analysis of Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914 (Polychaeta, Annelida): formerly the phyla Pogonophora and Vestimentifera. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 132: 55-80.
status source	Pleijel, Fredrik; Dahlgren, Thomas G.; Rouse, Greg W. (2009). Progress in systematics: from Siboglinidae to Pogonophora and Vestimentifera and back to Siboglinidae. Comptes Rendus Biologies. 332(2-3): 140-148.
taxonomy source	Karaseva, N. P.; Rimskaya-Korsakova, N. N.; Galkin, S. V.; Malakhov, V. V. (2016). Taxonomy, geographical and bathymetric distribution of vestimentiferan tubeworms (Annelida, Siboglinidae). Biology Bulletin. 43(9): 937-969.
identification resource	Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Salazar Vallejo, Sergio I. (2009). Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914. Poliquetos (Annelida: Polychaeta) de México y América Tropical. vol. 3, chapter 44 p. 556-567. de León-González, J.Á.; Et al (eds). Direccion de Publicaciones, Universidad Autonoma de Nueva Leon, Monterrey, Mexico. isbn 978-607-433-235-3.
identification resource	Ivanov, A. V. [Artemij Vasilevich], 1963. Pogonophora. Academic Press, London, pp.479.(Trans. and ed. and additions by Carlisle, D. B., additional material by Southward, E. C.).
biology source	McCowin, Marina F.; Collins, Patrick C.; Rouse, Greg W. (2023). Updated phylogeny of Vestimentifera (Siboglinidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) based on mitochondrial genomes, with a new species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 187; 107872: 1-16.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914. 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:129096