WoRMS taxon details
Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923
154918 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154918)
accepted
Subfamily
Fabricinae Rioja, 1923 · unaccepted (original spelling)
- Genus Augeneriella Banse, 1957
- Genus Bansella Fitzhugh, 2010
- Genus Brifacia Fitzhugh, 1998
- Genus Fabricia Blainville, 1828
- Genus Fabricinuda Fitzhugh, 1990
- Genus Fabriciola Friedrich, 1939
- Genus Fabrikirkia López & Cepeda, 2021
- Genus Leiobranchus Quatrefages, 1850
- Genus Novafabricia Fitzhugh, 1990
- Genus Pseudoaugeneriella Fitzhugh, 1998
- Genus Pseudofabricia Cantone, 1972
- Genus Pseudofabriciola Fitzhugh, 1990
- Genus Raficiba Fitzhugh, 2001
- Genus Rubifabriciola Huang, Fitzhugh & Rouse, 2011
- Genus Amphicora Ehrenberg, 1836 accepted as Fabricia Blainville, 1828 (subjective synonym)
- Genus Oridia Rioja, 1917 accepted as Amphicorina Claparède, 1864 (replaced junior homonym, invalid replacement name for Oria)
- Genus Othonia Johnston, 1835 accepted as Fabricia Blainville, 1828 (discarded replacement name)
- Genus Parafabricia Fitzhugh, 1992 accepted as Fabrikirkia López & Cepeda, 2021 (replaced junior homonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Rioja, Enrique 1923. Estudio sistemático de las Especies Ibéricas del suborden Sabelliformia. Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales 48: 5-144., available online at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000082883/1/
page(s): 15, 50; note: as Fabricinae, subfamily of Sabellidae [details]
(of Fabricinae Rioja, 1923) Rioja, Enrique 1923. Estudio sistemático de las Especies Ibéricas del suborden Sabelliformia. Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales 48: 5-144., available online at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000082883/1/
page(s): 15, 50; note: original spelling as Fabricinae [details]
page(s): 15, 50; note: as Fabricinae, subfamily of Sabellidae [details]
(of Fabricinae Rioja, 1923) Rioja, Enrique 1923. Estudio sistemático de las Especies Ibéricas del suborden Sabelliformia. Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales 48: 5-144., available online at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000082883/1/
page(s): 15, 50; note: original spelling as Fabricinae [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154918 on 2025-09-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Rioja, Enrique 1923. Estudio sistemático de las Especies Ibéricas del suborden Sabelliformia. Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales 48: 5-144., available online at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000082883/1/
page(s): 15, 50; note: as Fabricinae, subfamily of Sabellidae [details]
original description (of Fabricinae Rioja, 1923) Rioja, Enrique 1923. Estudio sistemático de las Especies Ibéricas del suborden Sabelliformia. Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales 48: 5-144., available online at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000082883/1/
page(s): 15, 50; note: original spelling as Fabricinae [details]
page(s): 15, 50; note: as Fabricinae, subfamily of Sabellidae [details]
original description (of Fabricinae Rioja, 1923) Rioja, Enrique 1923. Estudio sistemático de las Especies Ibéricas del suborden Sabelliformia. Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales 48: 5-144., available online at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000082883/1/
page(s): 15, 50; note: original spelling as Fabricinae [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Bick, Andreas; Bastrop, Ralf. (2025). Revision of the genus Manayunkia Leidy, 1859, and establishment of two subfamilies within Fabriciidae (Annelida, Sabellida). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5661(1): 1-58., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5661.1.1
note: Authors claim to create new subfamily Fabriciinae, when creating Manayunkiinae, but this subfamily by Rioja has existed since 1923. A correction was later published in an erratum. [details] Available for editors
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status source Huang, Danwei; Fitzhugh, Kirk; Rouse, Greg W. (2011). Inference of phylogenetic relationships within Fabriciidae (Sabellida, Annelida) using molecular and morphological data. <em>Cladistics.</em> 27(4): 356-379., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00343.x [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Kupriyanova, Elena K.; Rouse, Greg W. (2008). Yet another example of paraphyly in Annelida: Molecular evidence that Sabellidae contains Serpulidae. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 46(3): 1174-1181., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.10.025
note: Fabriciinae is changed in rank to Fabriciidae [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Authors claim to create new subfamily Fabriciinae, when creating Manayunkiinae, but this subfamily by Rioja has existed since 1923. A correction was later published in an erratum. [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Huang, Danwei; Fitzhugh, Kirk; Rouse, Greg W. (2011). Inference of phylogenetic relationships within Fabriciidae (Sabellida, Annelida) using molecular and morphological data. <em>Cladistics.</em> 27(4): 356-379., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00343.x [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Kupriyanova, Elena K.; Rouse, Greg W. (2008). Yet another example of paraphyly in Annelida: Molecular evidence that Sabellidae contains Serpulidae. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 46(3): 1174-1181., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.10.025
note: Fabriciinae is changed in rank to Fabriciidae [details] Available for editors
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identification resource
Giangrande, A.; Gambi, M. C.; Micheli, F.; Kroeker, K. J. (2014). Fabriciidae (Annelida, Sabellida) from a naturally acidified coastal system (Italy) with description of two new species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 94(7): 1417-1427., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315414000678
page(s): [Key to Mediterranean Sea species] [details]
page(s): [Key to Mediterranean Sea species] [details]
Other
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
note: usage as Fabricinae [details]
additional source Bick, Andreas; Bastrop, Ralf. (2025). <b>Erratum:</b> Revision of the genus Manayunkia leidy, 1859, and establishment of two subfamilies within Fabriciidae (Annelida, Sabellida). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5679 (4), 600–600., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5679.4.8
page(s): 600; note: Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923 already exists. All mentions of “Fabriciinae subfam. nov.” are replaced with “Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923”. [details] Available for editors [request]
note: usage as Fabricinae [details]
additional source Bick, Andreas; Bastrop, Ralf. (2025). <b>Erratum:</b> Revision of the genus Manayunkia leidy, 1859, and establishment of two subfamilies within Fabriciidae (Annelida, Sabellida). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5679 (4), 600–600., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5679.4.8
page(s): 600; note: Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923 already exists. All mentions of “Fabriciinae subfam. nov.” are replaced with “Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923”. [details] Available for editors
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Authority Authorship of Fabriciinae and of Fabriciidae is Rioja,1923. Authorship and date of a family name does not change when the rank alters (ICZN Art.34.1, Art 36.1). Note added as Giangrande et al. (2013) incorrectly stated the authorship of Fabriciidae as Kupriyanova & Rouse, 2008. Those authors (Kupriyanova & Rouse, 2008) were well aware Fabriciinae was authored by Rioja. They made the change raising Fabriciinae to Fabriciidae as it "represents the simplest solution, with the least disruption to current nomenclature". Bick & Bastrop (2025) began the reuse of Fabriciinae, calling it a subfam. nov, although they used Rioja as the author of the family, Fabriciidae. Given that they acknowledge Rioja, who authored Fabriciinae in 1923, it is illogical that anyone else other than Rioja could be author of Fabriciinae. See the note on Classification for further Code explanation. Bick & Bastrop (2025) published an Erratum stating Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923 already exists. All mentions of “Fabriciinae subfam. nov.” in their work should be replaced with “Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923” [details]
Classification Former status was as subfamily Fabriciinae in Sabellidae. Then Kupriyanova & Rouse, 2008 changed the family-level rank to Fabriciidae, without commenting on whether Fabriciinae as now the nominotypical taxon for Fabriciidae should still be in use. In theory the name is still existing, but in practice it is not needed unless another subfamily is created. Bick & Bastrop (2025) redeployed Fabriciinae when they created Manayunkiinae for Manayunkia and related genera. They incorrectly state that Fabriciinae was a new name (subfam. nov) but this overlooks that Fabriciinae Rioja, based on type genus Fabricia, was described in 1923 and has been in use by multiple authors almost continuously since that time. Unfortunately in their text Bick & Bastrop mention Fabriciinae tagged as a subfam. nov. 26 times. These are errors. It is basic in zoonomenclature that taxon names can be moved around in the classification hierarchy without changing the authority away from the original authorship. In the special case of recombinations of species-group names to another genus the recombiner can also be mentioned if desirable (the 51G ICZN Code example is "Limnatis nilotica (Savigny) Moquin-Tandon"), but there is no mechanism for doing this with family-group name-rank changes, and nor should there be one. Art 36 controls the situation. Bick & Bastrop (2025) subsequently published an Erratum stating that all mentions of “Fabriciinae subfam. nov.” in their review should be replaced with “Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923”.
Article 36 of the ICZN Code "principle of coordination" states very clearly the situation: [begin quote] "A name established for a taxon at any rank in the family group is deemed to have been simultaneously established for nominal taxa at all other ranks in the family group; all these taxa have the same type genus, and their names are formed from the stem of the name of the type genus [Art. 29.3] with appropriate change of suffix [Art. 34.1]. The name has the same authorship and date at every rank." [end quote] Article 37. states that the subordinate taxon [Fabriciinae in this instance] is termed the "nominotypical taxon" for the family [Fabriciidae in this instance] [details]
Diagnosis According to Huang et al (2011: 369) there are three morphological apomorphies for Fabriciidae: absence of ventral lips, modification of abdominal uncini to an elongate manubrium, and presence of branchial hearts), and six unambiguous synapomorphies, all based on the reproductive system. For example spermiogenesis occurs only in the thorax, with spermatids developing in large clusters associated with a central cytophore, there is a single, dorsal sperm duct, and three sperm features that are fabriciid synapomorphies: the presence of sperm nuclear projection, sperm nuclear membrane thickening, and an extra-axonemal sheath. [details]
Spelling See under entry for Fabricinae for the history of the spelling correction from Fabricinae to Fabriciinae (now nominotypical subfamily Fabriciinae in Fabriciidae). [details]
