WoRMS name details
Questidae Hartman, 1966
904 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:904)
unaccepted (rank downgrade to Orbiniidae subfamily)
Family
Questa Hartman, 1966 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, O. 1966. Quantitive survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 19(2): 187-455., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27911709
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
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Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Questidae Hartman, 1966. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=904 on 2025-05-21
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Nomenclature
original description
Hartman, O. 1966. Quantitive survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 19(2): 187-455., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27911709
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
redescription
Giere, O.; Erséus, C. (1998). A systematic account of the Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta), with description of new taxa. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 27(4): 345-360., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00466.x [details]
status source Giere, O.; Ebbe, B.; Erséus, C. 2007. Questa (Annelida, Polychaeta, Orbiniidae) from Pacific regions - new species and reassessment of the genus Periquesta. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 7(4): 304-319 [details]
status source Giere, O.; Ebbe, B.; Erséus, C. 2007. Questa (Annelida, Polychaeta, Orbiniidae) from Pacific regions - new species and reassessment of the genus Periquesta. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 7(4): 304-319 [details]
Other
context source (MSBIAS)
MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
additional source Rousset, V.; Pleijel, F.; Rouse, G. W.; Erséus, C.; Siddall, M. E. (2007). A molecular phylogeny of annelids. <em>Cladistics.</em> 23(1): 41-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00128.x [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rouse, G.W.; Fauchald, K. (1997). Cladistics and polychaetes. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 26(2), 139-204., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1997.tb00412.x [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 Rousset, V.; Pleijel, F.; Rouse, G. W.; Erséus, C.; Siddall, M. E. (2007). A molecular phylogeny of annelids. <em>Cladistics.</em> 23(1): 41-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00128.x [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rouse, G.W.; Fauchald, K. (1997). Cladistics and polychaetes. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 26(2), 139-204., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1997.tb00412.x [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Classification Erected for Questa Hartman, 1966, which is a genus of superficially oligochaete-like polychaetes with diagnostic aberrant internal features. Now asserted on molecular and other grounds to belong as a sub-group in Orbiniidae. Blake (2021: 109) newly recognised Questidae should be a subfamily in Orbiniidae. Questa is the only valid genus as Novaquesta Hobson, 1970 is regarded as a synonym of Questa [details]