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

Dinophilidae Macalister, 1876

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dimorphilus Worsaae, Kerbl, Vang & Gonzalez, 2021
Dinophilus Schmidt, 1848
Trilobodrilus Remane, 1925

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウジムカシゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Macalister, Alexander. (1876). An introduction to animal morphology and systematic zoology. Part 1.—Invertebrata. [book]. 462 pp. Longmans Green, London.
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	Westheide, W.; Riser, N. W. (1983). Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the neotenic interstitial polychaete Apodotrocha progenerans n.gen., n.sp. (Annelida). Zoomorphology. 103(2): 67-87.
additional source	Westheide, W. (1990). Polychaetes: interstitial families: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), 44. Universal Book Services/Universal Book Services/Backhuys/W. Backhuys: Oegstgeest. ISBN 90-73348-08-0. VII, 152 pp.
additional source	Remane, A. (1925 (1926 volume)). Diagnosen neuer Archianneliden. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 65(1): 15-17.
additional source	Shearer, Cressell. (1912). The problem of sex-determination in Dinophilus gyrociliatus. The sexual cycle. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, London. 57(227): 329-371, 5 figures, plates 30-34.
status source	Carus, J.V. (1885). Prodromus Faunae Mediterraneae sive Descriptio Animalium maris Mediterranei incolarum quam comparata silva rerum quatenus innotiut adiectis et nominibus vulgaribus eorumque auctoribus in commodum zoologorum. Vol. I. Coelenterata, Echinodermata, Vermes, Arthropoda. [Prodrome of the Mediterranean Fauna, or a Description of the Animals of the Inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea, as compared with a forest of things as far as unknown, with additions and common names and their authors for the benefit of zoologists. Vol. I. Coelenterata, Echinodermata, Worms, Arthropoda]. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagshandlung E. Koch, Stuttgart, i-xi, 1-525. pp. (Copepoda pp. 318-378), (Annelida pp. 196-281), (Kinorhyncha pp. 184-185).
status source	Westheide, Wilfried 1985. The systematic position of the Dinophilidae and the archiannelid problem, in S. Conway Morris, J.D. George, R. Gibson and H.M. Platt eds., The origins and relationships of lower invertebrates. The Systematics Association Special Volume 28: Oxford, Clarendon Press, p. 310-326.
status source	Struck, Torsten H., Halanych, Kenneth M. and Purschke, Guenter 2005. Dinophilidae (Annelida) is most likely not a progenetic Eunicida: evidence from 18S and 28S rDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(2): 619-623.
status source	Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny; Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg. (1994). A new genus and species of Dorvilleidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Bermuda, with a phylogenetic analysis of Dorvilleidae, Iphitimidae and Dinophilidae. Zoologica Scripta. 23(3): 107-131.
status source	Martín-Durán, José M.; Vellutini, Bruno C.; Marlétaz, Ferdinand; Cetrangolo, Viviana; Cvetesic, Nevena; Thiel, Daniel; Henriet, Simon; Grau-Bové, Xavier; Carrillo-Baltodano, Allan M.; Gu, Wenjia; Kerbl, Alexandra; Marquez, Yamile; Bekkouche, Nicolas; Chourrout, Daniel; Gómez-Skarmeta, Jose Luis; Irimia, Manuel; Lenhard, Boris; Worsaae, Katrine; Hejnol, Andreas. (2020). Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
status source	Graff, L., von. (1882). Monographie der Turbellarien 1. Rhabdocoelida. [Book]. 1-442, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Dinophilidae Macalister, 1876. 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:155089