Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Polychaeta incertae sedis

Histriobdellidae Claus & Moquin-Tandon, 1884

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Histriobdella Van Beneden, 1858

Literature

original description	Claus, C.; Moquin-Tandon, G. (1884). Traité de zoologie (2nd Ed). Librairie F. Savy, Paris, 1566 pp.
additional source	Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2. 354 pp.
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	Vaillant, L. (1890). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Lombriciniens, Hirudiniens, Bdellomorphes, Térétulariens et Planariens. vol 3 parts 1 & 2. Paris, Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret [Hirudinea are in vol 3(2)].
taxonomy source	Steiner, Tatiana Menchini and Amaral, A. Cecília Z. 1999. The family Histriobdellidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) including descriptions of two new species from Brazil and a new genus. Contributions to Zoology, 68(2): 95-108.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Histriobdellidae Claus & Moquin-Tandon, 1884. 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:972