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

Longosomatidae Hartman, 1944

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Heterospionidae*	Hartman, 1965	synonym

Children

Heterospio Ehlers, 1874

Literature

original description	Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous annelids. Part VI. Paraonidae, Magelonidae, Longosomidae, Ctenodrilidae, and Sabellariidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. 10(3): 311-389.
additional source	Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. 463 pp.
taxonomy source	Rouse, Greg; Pleijel, Fredrik; Tilic, Ekin. (2022). Annelida. [book]. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 418pp.
taxonomy source	Blake, James A.; Maciolek, Nancy J. (2023). New species and records of Heterospio (Annelida, Longosomatidae) from continental shelf, slope and abyssal depths of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and adjacent seas. Zootaxa. 5260(1): 1-74.
identification resource	Borowski, Christian. (1995). New records of Longosomatidae (Heterospionidae) (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the abyssal southeast Pacific, with description of Heterospio peruana sp.n. and general remarks on the family. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut. 92 (Suppl. 1): 129-144.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Longosomatidae Hartman, 1944. 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:22608