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WoRMS taxon detailsAcoetidae Kinberg, 1856
Polyodontidae Augener, 1918 · unaccepted (junior homonym)
marine,
recent only
Not documented
Status Polyodontidae is preoccupied in fishes and replaced by Acoetidae (R. Barnich)
Status Polyodontidae is preoccupied in fishes and replaced by Acoetidae (R. Barnich) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=19199 on 2025-06-04
Date action by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z created db_admin
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Polyodontidae Augener, 1918) Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280 page(s): 119; note: Polyodontidae used without explanation when reporting a Polyodontes and a Eupanthalis species [details] Taxonomytaxonomy source
Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2003). The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 559: 1-167., available online at http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510613533/The-Aphroditoidea-Annelida-Polychaeta-of-the-Mediterranean-Sea [details] Available for editors  [request]taxonomy source Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.464 [details] Available for editors [request]Identification resourceidentification resource
Barnich, Ruth. (2011). Identification of scale worms in British and Irish waters. NMBAQC 2010 taxonomic workshop, Dove Marine Laboratory. 52 pp., available online at http://www.nmbaqcs.org/scheme-components/invertebrates/literature-and-taxonomic-keys/identification-of-scale-worms.aspx [details] Otheradditional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Classification The genus Pseudeupanthalis Fauvel, 1958 was created in Acoetinae, but later taxonomists regard it as a junior synonym of Sthenelanella in Sigalionidae (see Fauchald, 1977: 66) [details]Unreviewed
Classification Placement in superfamily Aphroditacea follows the position of Polyodontidae [details]Status Polyodontidae is preoccupied in fishes and replaced by Acoetidae (R. Barnich) [details] |
