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

Chaetopteridae Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830
Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914
Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863
Spiochaetopterus M Sars, 1856

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: chaetopterid worms; parchment tubeworms sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Pergamentwürmer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: ツバサゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1833). [Part 5.] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris. sér. 1, 30: 411-425.
additional source	Martin, D.; Gil, J.; Carreras-Carbonell, J.; Bhaud, M.R. (2008). Description of a new species of Mesochaetopterus (Annelida, Polychaeta, Chaetopteridae), with redescription of Mesochaetopterus xerecus and an approach to the phylogeny of the family Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(2): 201-225.
additional source	Potts, Frank A. (1914). Polychaeta from the N.E. Pacific: The Chaetopteridae. With an account of the phenomenon of asexual reproduction in Phyllochaetopterus and the description of two new species of Chaetopteridae from the Atlantic. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 84(4): 955-994, plates I-VI.
additional source	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.
status source	Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny; Vinther, Jacob. 2012. Reconstructing the ancestral annelid. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 50(1): 85-87
status source	Moore, Jenna M.; Nishi, Eijiroh; Rouse, Greg W. (2017). Phylogenetic analyses of Chaetopteridae (Annelida). Zoologica Scripta. 46(5): 596-610.
taxonomy source	Gilbert, Katherine M. (1984). Family Chaetopteridae Malmgren, 1867. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Volume 2. Chapter Pagination: 11.1-11.13, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.
biology source	Wu, Xiu; Su, Xuechun; Wang, Yu; He, Caifang; Qiu, Jian-Wen; Zhang, Yanjie. (2024). Unraveling the phylogeny of Chaetopteridae (Annelida) through mitochondrial genome analysis. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11: 1382212: 1-12.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Chaetopteridae Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833. 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:918