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

Nereididae Blainville, 1818

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Nereidae*	[auctt.]	orthographic variant

Children

Gymnonereidinae Banse, 1977
Namanereidinae Hartman, 1959
Nereidinae Blainville, 1818

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Japanese: ゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. 1818: 78-85.
additional source	Bakken, Torkild; Wilson, Robin S. (2005). Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta. 34(5): 507-547.
additional source	Alves, Paulo R.; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Silva, Edson P.; Santos, Cinthya S. G. (2023). Nereididae (Annelida) phylogeny based on molecular data. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 23(3): 529-541.
additional source	Fitzhugh, K. 1987. Phylogenetic relationships within the Nereididae (Polychaeta): Implications at the subfamily level. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 7: 174-183.
additional source	Bakken, Torkild; Glasby, Christopher J.; Wilson, Robin S. 2009. A review of paragnath morphology in Nereididae (Polychaeta). Zoosymposia 2: 305-316
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
additional source	Banse, Karl. (1977). Gymnonereidinae new subfamily: the Nereididae (Polychaeta) with bifid parapodial neurocirri. Journal of Natural History. 11(6): 609-628.
additional source	Santos, Cinthya S. G., Pleijel, Fredrik, Lana, Paulo and Rouse, G.W. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships within Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida). Invertebrate Systematics 19(6): 557-576.
additional source	Latreille, P. A. (1825). Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposé succinctement et dans un ordre analytique avec l'indication de leurs genres. [Natural families of the animal kingdom, briefly presented and in analytical order with an indication of their genera.]. J. B. Baillière, Paris. 570 pp.
additional source	Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. [book]. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement].
redescription	Pettibone, Marian H. (1971). Revision of some species referred to Leptonereis, Nicon, and Laeonereis (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 104: 1-53.
identification resource	Sato, Masanori. (2017 (dated 2016)). Nereididae (Annelida) in Japan, with Special Reference to Life-History Differentiation Among Estuarine Species. [book chapter]. In Motokawa, M.; Kajihara, H. (eds). Species Diversity of Animals in Japan. 477-512.
identification resource	Wilson, Robin S.; Glasby, Christopher J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2023). The Nereididae (Annelida) – diagnoses, descriptions, and a key to the genera. Zookeys. 1182: 35–134.
identification resource	Hadiyanto, Hadiyanto; Glasby, Christopher J. (2023). Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia. Zootaxa. 5239(2): 151-203.
identification resource	Muir, Alexander I.; Hossain, Md. M. Maruf. (2014). The intertidal polychaete (Annelida) fauna of the Sitakunda coast (Chittagong, Bangladesh), with notes on the Capitellidae, Glyceridae, Lumbrineridae, Nephtyidae, Nereididae and Phyllodocidae of the “Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion”. ZOOKEYS. 419: 1-27.
identification resource	Wilson, Robin Stephen; Glasby, Christopher J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2023). A Taxonomic Information System for Nereididae (Annelida): morphological datasets supporting description, interactive identification and phylogenetic analysis of the family (1.0). [Data set]. Zenodo [repository].

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereididae Blainville, 1818. 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:22496