Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Amphinomida

Euphrosinidae Williams, 1852

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Euphrosine Lamarck, 1818
Palmyreuphrosyne Fauvel, 1913

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ケハダウミケムシ科

Literature

original description	Williams, Thomas. (1852). Report on the British Annelida. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1851. 159-272. plates 2-11 [bound at end of volume].
taxonomy source	Neal, Lenka; Wiklund, Helena; Gunton, Laetitia M.; Rabone, Muriel; Bribiesca-Contreras, Guadalupe; Dahlgren, Thomas G.; Glover, Adrian G. (2022). Abyssal fauna of polymetallic nodule exploration areas, eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Amphinomidae and Euphrosinidae (Annelida, Amphinomida). ZooKeys. 1137: 33-74.
taxonomy source	Batts, Rowan A.; Whitman, Karsyn N.; Meißner, Karin; Kocot, Kevin M. (2022). Biodiversity and Phylogeny of North Atlantic Euphrosinidae (Annelida). Diversity. 14(11) 996:1-10.
identification resource	Kudenov, Jerry D. (1993). Amphinomidae and Euphrosinidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) principally from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and Subantarctic regions. Antarctic Research Series, Ser. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXII. 58: 93-150.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Euphrosinidae Williams, 1852. 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:961