Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Cirratuliformia

Sternaspidae Carus, 1863

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Sternaspis Otto, 1820

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: gooseberry worm; mud-owl sources: Sendall, Kelly; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio. 2013. Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286(0): 1-74

Japanese: ダルマゴカイ科

Literature

original description	Carus, J. Victor 1863. Vermes, in W. C. H. Peters, J.V. Carus and C.E.A. Gerstäcker eds., Handbuch der zoologie: Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, p. 422-484.
basis of record	Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d'Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 44(1): 67-95.
taxonomy source	Drennan, Regan; Wiklund, Helena; Rouse, Greg W.; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wu, Xuwen; Kobayashi, Genki; Yoshino, Kenji; Glover, Adrian G. (2019). Taxonomy and phylogeny of mud owls (Annelida: Sternaspidae), including a new synonymy and new records from the Southern Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean: challenges in morphological delimitation. Marine Biodiversity. efirst: 1-39.
identification resource	Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2017). Six new tropical sternaspid species (Annelida, Sternaspidae) with keys to identify genera and species. Zoological Studies. 56: e32 [16 pp.].
identification resource	Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio; Buzhinskaja, Galina. 2013. Six new deep-water sternaspid species (Annelida, Sternaspidae) from the Pacific Ocean. ZooKeys 348(0): 1-27
identification resource	Sendall, Kelly; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio. 2013. Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286(0): 1-74