Marine Species Traits - Seraphsidae Gray, 1853

WoRMS taxon details

Seraphsidae Gray, 1853

AphiaID

411720 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:411720)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815

Synonymised names

Terebellidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · unaccepted (Homonym of Terebellidae Johnston,...)

Homonym of Terebellidae Johnston, 1846 based on Terebella Linnaeus, 1767 [Annelida]

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Subfamily Pseudoterebellinae S. J. Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2021 (nomenclaturally unavailable name)
1. Genus Terebellum Lamarck, 1798
2. Genus Artopoia Gistel, 1848 accepted as Terebellum Lamarck, 1798 (invalid: unnecessary substitute name for Terebellum)
3. Genus Lucis Gistel, 1848 accepted as Terebellum Lamarck, 1798
4. Genus Terebrina Rafinesque, 1815 accepted as Terebellum Lamarck, 1798 (invalid: unnecessary substitute name for Terebellum)

Environment

marine

Original description

Gray, J. E. (1853). On the division of ctenobranchous gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 11: 124–132., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13785854
page(s): 131 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Seraphsidae Gray, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411720 on 2025-05-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-08-13 07:23:33Z

created

db_admin

2010-10-14 23:08:53Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gray, J. E. (1853). On the division of ctenobranchous gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 11: 124–132., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13785854
page(s): 131 [details]

basis of record Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
page(s): 224, 348 [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Jung P. (1974). A revision of the family Seraphsidae (Gastropoda: Strombacea). Paleontographica Americana. 8(47): 72 pp., 16 pls. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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Language	Name
Japanese	トンボガイ科	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Seraphsidae)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Terebellidae) (from synonym Terebellidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
To Genbank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam