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

Lopadorrhynchidae Claparède, 1870

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Lopadorhynchidae*		orthographic variant
*Lopadorrhynchinae*	Claparède, 1870	synonym

Children

Hydrophanes Claparède, 1870
Lopadorrhynchus Grube, 1855
Maupasia Viguier, 1886
Pedinosoma Reibisch, 1895
Pelagobia Greeff, 1879

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ユメゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom].
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	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lopadorrhynchidae Claparède, 1870. 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:933