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

Hesionidae Grube, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Hesioninae Grube, 1850
Ophiodrominae Pleijel, 1998
Psamathinae Pleijel, 1998

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オトヒメゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364.
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.
additional source	Rouse, Greg W.; Carvajal, Jose Ignacio; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2018). Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Annelida), with four new species from deep-sea eastern Pacific methane seeps, and resolution of the affinity of Hesiolyra. Invertebrate Systematics. 32(5): 1050-1068.
status source	Ruta, C.; Nygren, A.; Rousset, V.; Sundberg, P.; Tillier, A.; Wiklund, H.; Pleijel, F. 2007. Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Polychaeta), assessed from morphology, 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, 16S rDNA and COI. Zoologica Scripta 36(1): 99-107
status source	Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta. 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables.
taxonomy 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.
identification resource	Vieitez, J.M.; M.A.; Alós, C.; Parapar, J.; Besteiro, C.; Moreira, J.; Nunez, J.; Laborda, J.; and San Martin, G. (2004). Annelida Polychaeta I. Fauna Iberica. Ramos, M.A. et al (Eds.). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Vol. 25:1-530 [sections separate authorship not recognised here].
identification resource	Salazar-Vallejo, S. I.; Orensanz, J. M. (2006). Pleijelius longae n. gen., n. sp., a remarkable deep water polychaete from the Northwestern Atlantic (Polychaeta : Hesionidae). Scientia Marina. 70: 157-166.
identification resource	Rizzo, A. E.; Salazar-vallejo, S. I. (2014). Hesionidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from South-Southeastern Brazil, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa. 3856(2): 267-291.
identification resource	Pamungkas, Joko. (2024). Leocrates bitungensis (Hesionidae, Annelida): a new polychaete species from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 72: 194–202.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hesionidae Grube, 1850. 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:946