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Chaetopteridae Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

918  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:918)

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  1. Genus Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830
  2. Genus Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914
  3. Genus Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863
  4. Genus Spiochaetopterus M Sars, 1856
  5. Genus Leptochaetopterus Berkeley, 1927 accepted as Spiochaetopterus M Sars, 1856 (subjective synonym)
  6. Genus Mesotrocha Leuckart & Pagenstecher in Leuckart, 1855 accepted as Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, larval stage, uncertain placement but perhaps Phyllochaetopterus)
  7. Genus Phyllochaetopreus [auctt. misspelling] accepted as Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863 (lapsus)
  8. Genus Ranzania Claparède, 1870 accepted as Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914 (junior homonym)
  9. Genus Ranzanides Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914 (subjective synonym)
  10. Genus Sasekumaria Rullier, 1976 accepted as Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914 (subjective synonym)
  11. Genus Telepsavus Costa, 1861 accepted as Spiochaetopterus M Sars, 1856 (subjective synonym)
  12. Genus Tricoelia Renier, 1804 accepted as Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830 (rejected name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1833). [Part 5.] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> sér. 1, 30: 411-425., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5978926 [details]   
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Chaetopteridae Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=918 on 2024-03-19
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original description Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1833). [Part 5.] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> sér. 1, 30: 411-425., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5978926 [details]   

taxonomy source Gilbert, Katherine M. (1984). Family Chaetopteridae Malmgren, 1867. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Volume 2. Chapter Pagination: 11.1-11.13, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.
page(s): 11.1 [details]   

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]   

additional source Potts, Frank A. (1914). Polychaeta from the N.E. Pacific: The Chaetopteridae. With an account of the phenomenon of asexual reproduction in <i>Phyllochaetopterus</i> and the description of two new species of Chaetopteridae from the Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 84(4): 955-994, plates I-VI., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31856337 [details]   

additional source Martin, D.; Gil, J.; Carreras-Carbonell, J.; Bhaud, M.R. (2008). Description of a new species of Mesochaetopterus (Annelida, Polychaeta, Chaetopteridae), with redescription of Mesochaetopterus xerecus and an approach to the phylogeny of the family Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(2): 201-225. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

status source Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny; Vinther, Jacob. 2012. Reconstructing the ancestral annelid. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 50(1): 85-87 [details]   

status source Moore, Jenna M.; Nishi, Eijiroh; Rouse, Greg W. (2017). Phylogenetic analyses of Chaetopteridae (Annelida). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 46(5): 596-610., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12238/abstract [details]   
 
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Classification The position of Chaetopteridae within the Polychaeta hierarchy is unclear. In molecular studies it has consistently appeared basal to the Sedentaria and Errantia Annelida groups, while morphologically with both spioniform grooved palps and terebelliform ⁄ sabelliform uncini it appears indicative of placing in Sedentaria. [details]

Diagnosis There are four valid Chaetopteridae genera, all with three broadly similar body regions (tagma) and knobbed spines on chaetiger 4, and a pair of palps, but otherwise distinct from each other, although species assigned to Phyllochaetopterus and Spiochaetopterus may overlap. See each genus for the diagnoses but here are some important distinctions. Chaetopterus has 5 tagma B segments of which 3 have a unique piston-like morphology for pumping water. It is the only genus with short palps. Mesochaetopterus most often has 2 tagma B segments. Phyllochaetopterus and Spiochaetopterus may have 20 or more tagma B segments. Phyllochaetopterus and Spiochaetopterus have tube walls of chitin-like material, and Chaetopterus and Mesochaetopterus have tube walls of parchment-like layered secretions. Phyllochaetopterus has a separate pair of notopodial cirri on segment A1. Spiochaetopterus usually has just one chaetiger 4 spine. [details]
LanguageName 
English parchment tubewormschaetopterid worms  [details]
German Pergamentwürmer  [details]
Japanese ツバサゴカイ科  [details]