Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Hesionidae

Psamathinae Pleijel, 1998

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Hesiospina Imajima & Hartman, 1964
Nereimyra Blainville, 1828
Periboea Ehlers, 1864
Psamathe Johnston, 1836
Syllidia Quatrefages, 1865

Literature

original description

Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta. 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables.

additional source

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo; Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey. (2017 [2016 issue, but unpublished until mid 2017]). New status for hesionid polychaetes (Annelida, Polychaeta). Gaia Scientia. 10(4): 160-165.

status source

Summers, Mindi; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). Invertebrate Systematics. 29(2): 105-123.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Psamathinae Pleijel, 1998. 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:322552

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2015-07-15 by Geoffrey Read

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