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

Nereidinae Blainville, 1818

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subfamily group names

*Nereinae*	[auctt.]	synonym

Children

Alitta Kinberg, 1865
Ceratonereis Kinberg, 1865
Composetia Hartmann-Schröder, 1985
Eunereis Malmgren, 1865
Hediste Malmgren, 1867
Leonnates Kinberg, 1865
Micronereis Claparède, 1863
Neanthes Kinberg, 1865
Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Paraleonnates Chlebovitsch & Wu, 1962
Perinereis Kinberg, 1865
Platynereis Kinberg, 1865
Pseudonereis Kinberg, 1865
Unanereis Day, 1962
Websterinereis Pettibone, 1971

Literature

original description	Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. 1818: 78-85.
additional source	Bakken, Torkild; Wilson, Robin S. (2005). Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta. 34(5): 507-547.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereidinae Blainville, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324346