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

Nephtyidae Grube, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aglaophamus Kinberg, 1866
Inermonephtys Fauchald, 1968
Micronephthys Friedrich, 1939
Nephtys Cuvier, 1817

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: catworms sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Opalwürmer 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: シロガネゴカイ科

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.
identification resource	Ravara, Ascensão ; Cunha, Marina R. ; Pleijel, Fredrik 2010: Nephtyidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from southern Europe. Zootaxa 2682: 1-68.
identification resource	Dnestrovskaya, N.Yu. and Jirkov, I.A. (2011). Identification key for Nephtyidae (Polychaeta) of the Eastern Atlantic and the North Polar Basin. NMBAQC 2008 taxonomic workshop, Dove Marine Laboratory. 7pp.
identification resource	Alalykina, Inna L.; Dnestrovskaya, Nataliya Yu; Jirkov, Igor A. (2017). Identification key to Nephtyidae (Annelida) of the Sea of Okhotsk. ZooKeys. 684: 1-18.
identification resource	Rainer, S. F. (1991). The genus Nephtys (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida) of northern Europe: A review of species, including the description of N. pulchra sp. n. and a key to the Nephtyidae. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen. 45(1-2): 65-96.
identification resource	Dnestrovskaya, Nataliya Yu. (2020). Identification key to Nephtyidae (Annelida) of the Black Sea. ZooKeys. 908: 1-17.
identification resource	Dixon-Bridges, Kylie; Gladstone, William; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2014). One new species of Micronephthys Friedrich, 1939 and one new species of Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida: Nephtyidae) from eastern Australia with notes on Aglaophamus australiensis (Fauchald, 1965) and a key to all Australian species. Zootaxa. 3872(5): 513-540.
identification resource	Kuş, Sevgi; Kurt, Güley; Çinar, Melih Ertan. (2021). Nephtyidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa. 5060(2): 33-64.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nephtyidae 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:956