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

Terebelliformia Levinsen, 1882

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ampharetidae Malmgren, 1866
Melinnidae Chamberlin, 1919
Pectinariidae Quatrefages, 1866
Terebellidae Johnston, 1846
Trichobranchidae Malmgren, 1866

Literature

original description	Levinsen, G.M.R. (1883). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn, 1882. 160-251.
additional source	Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Fitzhugh, Kirk; Hutchings, Pat. 2013. The continuing challenge of phylogenetic relationships in Terebelliformia (Annelida : Polychaeta). Invertebrate Systematics 27(2): 186-238
taxonomy source	Holthe, T. (1986). Evolution, systematics, and distribution of the Polychaeta Terebellomorpha, with a catalogue of the taxa and a bibliography. Gunneria. 55: 1-236.
taxonomy source	Hatschek, Berthold. (1893). System der Anneliden, ein vorläufiger Bericht. Sitzungsberichte des Deutschen Naturwissenschaftlich-Medicinischen Vereines für Böhmen "Lotos" in Prag. Neue Folge 13: 123-126.
taxonomy source	Stiller, Josefin; Tilic, Ekin; Rousset, Vincent; Pleijel, Fredrick; Rouse, Greg W. (2020). Spaghetti to a tree: A robust phylogeny for Terebelliformia (Annelida) based on transcriptomes, molecular and morphological Data. Biology. 9(4): 73 [29 pp. + supplementary material].
identification resource	Jirkov, I. A. and Leontovitch, M. K. (2013). Identification keys for Terebellomorpha (Polychaeta) of the eastern Atlantic and the North Polar basin. Invertebrate Zoology [aka Zoologiya Bespozvonochnykh]. 10 (2): 217 - 243.