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Deep-Sea taxon details

Aphroditiformia 
AphiaID: 927

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1
Rank Suborder
Parent Phyllodocida
Sources  basis of record: 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, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

additional source: Norlinder, Erika; Nygren, Arne; Wiklund, Helena; Pleijel, Fredrik. 2012. Phylogeny of scale-worms (Aphroditiformia, Annelida), assessed from 18SrRNA, 28SrRNA, 16SrRNA, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(2): 490-500, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.002 [details]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856
Family Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867
Family Eulepethidae Chamberlin, 1919
Family Pholoidae Kinberg, 1858
Family Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867
Family Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867

Superfamily Aphroditoidea (unaccepted, no longer required as nominal superfamily)
Superfamily Chrysopetalacea accepted as Aphroditoidea
Superfamily Pisionacea accepted as Aphroditoidea
Family Pisionidae Southern, 1914 accepted as Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867
Environment marine
Note  Editor's comment: Superfamilies under suborder Aphroditiformia are currently disused and equivalent, therefore all, including Aphroditoidea, are superfluous. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:927
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
  
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  Citation: Deep-Sea (2013). Aphroditiformia. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Glover, A.G., Higgs, N., Horton, T. (2013) World Register of Deep-Sea species at http://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=927 on 2013-06-20
  
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