WoRMS name details
Melinninae Chamberlin, 1919
1447582 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1447582)
unaccepted (disused, placeholder entry for rank upgrade to family)
Subfamily
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Melinninae Chamberlin, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1447582 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Stiller, Josefin; Tilic, Ekin; Rousset, Vincent; Pleijel, Fredrick; Rouse, Greg W. (2020). Spaghetti to a tree: A robust phylogeny for Terebelliformia (Annelida) based on transcriptomes, molecular and morphological Data. <em>Biology.</em> 9(4): 73 [29 pp. + supplementary material]., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9040073
page(s): 6 of 28; note: rank upgrade of Melinninae from subfamily to family Melinnidae [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 6 of 28; note: rank upgrade of Melinninae from subfamily to family Melinnidae [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Classification See Melinnidae, upgraded in rank (Stiller et al 2020) from former subfamily rank as Melinninae in Ampharetidae [details]
