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

Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acoetes Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832
Euarche Ehlers, 1887
Eupanthalis McIntosh, 1876
Eupolyodontes Buchanan, 1894
Panthalis Kinberg, 1856
Polyodontes Blainville, 1828

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: ボウセキウロコムシ科

Literature

additional source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

taxonomy source

Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2003). The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 559: 1-167.

taxonomy source

Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138.

identification resource

Barnich, Ruth. (2011). Identification of scale worms in British and Irish waters. NMBAQC 2010 taxonomic workshop, Dove Marine Laboratory. 52 pp.

Genbank

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856. 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:19199

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2012-09-19 by Geoffrey Read

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