Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida

Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Microrbiniinae Blake, 2000
Orbiniinae Hartman, 1942
Questinae Hartman, 1966

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ホコサキゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University. 8(1): 1-98.
basis of record	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	Bleidorn, Christoph 2005. Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) based on molecular data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 144(1): 59-73.
identification resource	Zhadan, Anna. (2020). Review of Orbiniidae (Annelida, Sedentaria) from Australia. Zootaxa. 4860(4): 451-502.
identification resource	Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. Zootaxa. 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph].
identification resource	Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942. pages 1-26. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=902