Marine Species Traits - Hesionidae Grube, 1850

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Hesionidae Grube, 1850

AphiaID

946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:946)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Hesione Lamarck, 1818

Parent

Nereidiformia

Original name

Hesionidae Grube, 1850

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Genus Elisesione Salazar-Vallejo, 2016
Subfamily Hesioninae Grube, 1850
1. Tribe Hesionini Grube, 1850
  1. Genus Dalhousia McIntosh, 1885
  2. Genus Dalhousiella McIntosh, 1901
  3. Genus Hesione Lamarck, 1818
  4. Genus Lamprophaes Grube, 1867
  5. Genus Leocrates Kinberg, 1866
  6. Genus Leocratides Ehlers, 1908
  7. Genus Paradalhousia Salazar-Vallejo, 2020
  8. Genus Paralamprophaea Salazar-Vallejo, 2020
  9. Genus Paraleocrates Salazar-Vallejo, 2020
2. Genus Lizardia Pleijel & Rouse, 2005
Genus Ichthyohesione Uchida in Uchida, Lopéz & Sato, 2019
Subfamily Ophiodrominae Pleijel, 1998
1. Tribe Amphidurini Pleijel, Rouse, Sundkvist & Nygren, 2012
  1. Genus Amphiduropsis Pleijel, 2001
  2. Genus Amphiduros Hartman, 1959
  3. Genus Neogyptis Pleijel, Rouse, Sundkvist & Nygren, 2012
  4. Genus Parahesione Pettibone, 1956
2. Tribe Gyptini
  1. Genus Gyptis Marion, 1874
  2. Genus Hesiobranchia Ruta & Pleijel, 2006
  3. Genus Hesiodeira Blake & Hilbig, 1990
  4. Genus Hesiolyra Blake, 1985
3. Tribe Ophiodromini Pleijel, 1998
  1. Genus Heteropodarke Hartmann-Schröder, 1962
  2. Genus Mahesia Westheide, 2000
  3. Genus Oxydromus Grube, 1855
  4. Genus Podarkeopsis Laubier, 1961
  5. Genus Sinohesione Westheide, Purschke & Mangerich, 1994
  6. Genus Anoplonereis Giard, 1882 accepted as Oxydromus Grube, 1855 (possible subjective synonym)
  7. Genus Ophiodromus Sars, 1862 accepted as Oxydromus Grube, 1855 (subjective synonym)
  8. Genus Parasyllidea Pettibone, 1961 accepted as Oxydromus Grube, 1855 (subjective synonym)
  9. Genus Podarke Ehlers, 1864 accepted as Oxydromus Grube, 1855 (subjective synonym)
Genus Parahesiocaeca Uchida in Uchida, Lopéz & Sato, 2019
Subfamily Psamathinae Pleijel, 1998
1. Genus Bonuania Pillai, 1965
2. Genus Hesiospina Imajima & Hartman, 1964
3. Genus Micropodarke Okuda, 1938
4. Genus Nereimyra Blainville, 1828
5. Genus Psamathe Johnston, 1836
6. Genus Sirsoe Pleijel, 1998
7. Genus Syllidia Quatrefages, 1866
8. Genus Vrijenhoekia Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008
9. Genus Castalia Savigny, 1822 accepted as Nereimyra Blainville, 1828 (junior homonym)
10. Genus Kefersteinia Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Psamathe Johnston, 1836 (subjective synonym)
11. Genus Magalia Marion, 1874 accepted as Syllidia Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Genus Synsyllidea Uchida in Uchida, Lopéz & Sato, 2019
Genus Ichthyohesione Uchida, 2004 accepted as Ichthyohesione Uchida in Uchida, Lopéz & Sato, 2019 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, nomen nudum, Article 13. type is unavailable name (Art.16))

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 306 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hesionidae Grube, 1850. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=946 on 2026-09-08

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Hesionidae Grube, 1850. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=946 on 2026-09-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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db_admin

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

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Fauchald, Kristian

2013-11-07 21:18:31Z

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Read, Geoffrey

2024-03-24 21:51:48Z

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Read, Geoffrey

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original description Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 306 [details]

taxonomy source Summers, Mindi; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). Invertebrate Systematics. 29(2): 105-123., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS14055 [details] Available for editors

additional source 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 Rouse, Greg W.; Carvajal, Jose Ignacio; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2018). Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Annelida), with four new species from deep-sea eastern Pacific methane seeps, and resolution of the affinity of Hesiolyra. Invertebrate Systematics. 32(5): 1050-1068., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS17092 [details] Available for editors

status source Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta. 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00433.x [details] Available for editors

status source Ruta, C.; Nygren, A.; Rousset, V.; Sundberg, P.; Tillier, A.; Wiklund, H.; Pleijel, F. 2007. Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Polychaeta), assessed from morphology, 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, 16S rDNA and COI. Zoologica Scripta 36(1): 99-107 [details]

identification resource Pamungkas, Joko. (2024). Leocrates bitungensis (Hesionidae, Annelida): a new polychaete species from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 72: 194–202., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2024-0016
page(s): 201; note: key to Indonesian species of Hesionidae [details] Available for editors

identification resource Rizzo, A. E.; Salazar-vallejo, S. I. (2014). Hesionidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from South-Southeastern Brazil, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa. 3856(2): 267-291., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.7
page(s): 269 [key to world genera, and keys within genera] [details]

identification resource Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio Ignacio; Orensanz, José María. (2006). Pleijelius longae n. gen., n. sp., a remarkable deep water polychaete from the Northwestern Atlantic (Polychaeta : Hesionidae). Scientia Marina. 70(S3): 157-166., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2006.70s3157
page(s): 164 [details] Available for editors

identification resource Vieitez, J.M.; M.A.; Alós, C.; Parapar, J.; Besteiro, C.; Moreira, J.; Nunez, J.; Laborda, J.; and San Martin, G. (2004). Annelida Polychaeta I. Fauna Iberica. Ramos, M.A. et al (Eds.). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Vol. 25:1-530 [sections separate authorship not recognised here].
page(s): 210 [details]

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hesionidae)
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To The Arctic Traits Database (11 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002503.AN)
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