Deep-Sea taxon details
Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856
- Genus Acoetes Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832
- Genus Euarche Ehlers, 1887
- Genus Eupanthalis McIntosh, 1876
- Genus Panthalis Kinberg, 1856
- Genus Polyodontes Blainville, 1828
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=19199 on 2025-06-30
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=19199 on 2025-06-30
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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 
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
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
identification 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]
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
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
identification 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]
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]
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | ボウセキウロコムシ科 | [details] |
