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

Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Arenotrocha Westheide & von Nordheim, 1985
Dorvillea Parfitt, 1866
Iphitime Marenzeller, 1902
Marycarmenia Nunez, 1998
Ophryotrocha Claparède & Mecznikow, 1869
Ougia Wolf, 1986
Parapodrilus Westheide, 1965
Parophryotrocha Hartmann-Schröder, 1971
Parougia Wolf, 1986
Pettiboneia Orensanz, 1973
Protodorvillea Pettibone, 1961
Pusillotrocha Westheide & von Nordheim, 1985
Schistomeringos Jumars, 1974

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ノリコイソメ／コイソメ科

Literature

original description	Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 48: 1-514.
additional source	Orensanz, J.M. (1990). The Eunicemorph polychaete annelids from Antarctic and Subantarctic Seas. With addenda to the Eunicemorpha of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and the Southern Indian Ocean. Antarctic Research Series. 52: 1-183.
additional source	Hilbig, B. (1995). A new polychaete Eliberidens hartmannschroederae sp.n. (Polychaeta: Dorvilleidae) from the U.S. Atlantic continental slope. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut. 92: 85-88.
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.
taxonomy source	Wolf, Paul S. (1984). Family Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Volume 6. Chapter Pagination: 44.1-44.37, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.
identification resource	Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny; Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg. (1994). A new genus and species of Dorvilleidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Bermuda, with a phylogenetic analysis of Dorvilleidae, Iphitimidae and Dinophilidae. Zoologica Scripta. 23(3): 107-131.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919. 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:971