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

Chrysopetalidae Ehlers, 1864

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Calamyzinae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971
Chrysopetalinae Ehlers, 1864
Dysponetinae Aguado, Nygren & Rouse, 2013

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: タンザクゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Ehlers, E. H. (1864). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt.
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	Aguado, María Teresa; Nygren, Arne; Rouse, Greg W. (2013). Two apparently unrelated groups of symbiotic annelids, Nautiliniellidae and Calamyzidae (Phyllodocida, Annelida), are a clade of derived chrysopetalid polychaetes. Cladistics. 29(6): 610-628.
status source	Pleijel, Fredrik and Dahlgren, T.G. 1998. Position and delineation of Chrysopetalidae and Hesionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta, Phyllodocida). Cladistics 14: 129-150.
taxonomy source	Gathof, Jerry M. (1984). Family Chrysopetalidae Ehlers, 1864. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Volume 3. Chapter Pagination: 26.1-26.10, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.
ecology source	Watson, Charlotte; Faulwetter, Sarah. (2017). Stylet jaws of Chrysopetalidae (Annelida). Journal of Natural History. Efirst: 1-62.
identification resource	Cruz-Gómez, Christopher. (2021). A new genus and seven new species of chrysopetalids (Annelida, Chrysopetalidae) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Zootaxa. 5068(1): 1-59.
identification resource	Perkins, T. H. (1985). Chrysopetalum, Bhawania and two new genera of Chrysopetalidae (Polychaeta), principally from Florida. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 98(4): 856-915.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Chrysopetalidae Ehlers, 1864. 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:944