Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Polychaeta incertae sedis

Archiannelida

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: nom. dub.

note: The Archiannelida are not a proper taxonomic group, and the five families included are not particularly closely related to each other. Te features in which they resemble each others are exactly those that have been considered to be of selective advantage

Literature

original description	Hatschek, Berthold 1878. Studien über die Entwicklungeschichte der Anneliden. Arbeiten aus den Zoologischen Instituten der Universität Wien und der Zoologischen Station in Triest 1: 277-404.
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.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Archiannelida. 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:146418

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Last modified

2010-03-03 by Geoffrey Read

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