Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Order Sipuncula

Golfingiidae Stephen & Edmonds, 1972

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

*Phascolionidae*	Cutler & Gibbs, 1985	synonym

Golfingia Lankester, 1885
Nephasoma Pergament, 1940
Onchnesoma Koren & Danielssen, 1875
Phascolion Théel, 1875
Thysanocardia (Fisher, 1950)

Japanese: フクロホシムシ科

original description	Stephen, A. C., Edmonds, S. J. (1972). The Phyla Sipuncula and Echiura. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London.
basis of record	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	Schulze, A.; Boyle, M. J.; Kawauchi, G. Y.; Kerbl, A.; Worsaae, K. (2019). Sipuncula. Lobatocerebridae. [Book chapter]. Chapter 6, p177-216 In: Handbook of Zoology [Annelida. Basal groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria 1], edited by G. Purschke, M. Böggemann and W. Westheide. De Gruyter.

Read, G.; Saiz-Salinas, J. (2025). World Sipuncula Database. Golfingiidae Stephen & Edmonds, 1972. 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:2032