Aciculata
Encyclopedia
Aciculata is an order
of polychaete
worms. These worms are found worldwide in marine environments and brackish water.
Suborder Phyllodocida
Incertae sedis
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
of polychaete
Polychaete
The Polychaeta or polychaetes are a class of annelid worms, generally marine. Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are made of chitin. Indeed, polychaetes are sometimes referred to as bristle worms. More than 10,000...
worms. These worms are found worldwide in marine environments and brackish water.
Families
Suborder Eunicida- Amphinomidae Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
- Diurodrilidae Kristensen and Niilonen, 1982
- Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919
- EunicidaeEunicidaeEunicidae is a family of polychaetes. Many eunicids reach a considerable size. Their jaws are known from Ordovician sediments. They live throughout the seas; a few species are parasitic....
Berthold, 1827 - Euphrosinidae Williams, 1851
- Hartmaniellidae Imajima, 1977
- Histriobdellidae Vaillant, 1890
- Lumbrineridae Schmarda, 1861
- Oenonidae Kinberg, 1865
- Onuphidae Kinberg, 1865
Suborder Phyllodocida
Phyllodocida
Phyllodocida is an order of polychaete worms in the subclass Aciculata. These worms are mostly marine though some are found in brackish water. Most are active benthic creatures, moving over the surface or burrowing in sediments, or living in cracks and crevices in bedrock. A few construct tubes in...
- Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856
- Alciopidae Ehlers, 1864
- Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867
- Chrysopetalidae Ehlers, 1864
- Eulepethidae Chamberlin, 1919
- GlyceridaeGlyceridaeGlyceridae is a family of polychaete worms. They are commonly referred to as beak-thrower worms or bloodworms. They are bright red, segmented, aquatic worms. The proboscis worm Glycera is sometimes called bloodworm. The Glyceridae are ferocious epi- and infaunal polychaetes that prey upon small...
Grube, 1850 - Goniadidae Kinberg, 1866
- HesionidaeHesionidaeHesionidae are a family of phyllodocid "bristle worms" . They are marine organisms. Most are found on the continental shelf; Hesiocaeca methanicola is found on methane ice, where it feeds on bacterial biofilms.A characteristic apomorphy of the Hesionidae are the cirrophores of the anterior...
Grube, 1850 - Ichthyotomidae Eisig, 1906
- Iospilidae Bergstroem, 1914
- Lacydoniida Bergstroem, 1914
- Lopadorhynchidae Claparede, 1868
- Myzostomidae Benham, 1896
- Nautiliniellidae Miura and Laubier, 1990
- NephtyidaeNephtyidaeNephtyidae is a taxonomic family of worms. They are commonly referred to as catworms.-Characteristics:Nephtyidae are pale, clearly segmented polychaetes with a small pentagonal prostomium with two pairs of small antennae...
Grube, 1850 - NereididaeNereididaeNereididae are a family of polychaete worms. It contains about 500 – mostly marine – species grouped into 42 genera. They may be commonly called ragworms or clam worms.-Characteristics:...
Johnston, 1865 - Paralacydoniidae Pettibone, 1963
- Pholoidae Kinberg, 1858
- Phyllodocidae Oersted, 1843
- Pilargidae Saint-Joseph, 1899
- Pisionidae Southern, 1914
- PolynoidaePolynoidaeA family of scaled Polychaete worms known as the "scale worms". Short and flat, specimens reach as much as 20 cm in length and 10 cm width. An almost-constant number of small segments is the norm. They are covered by scales, technically termed elytra....
Malmgren, 1867 - Pontodoridae Bergstroem, 1914
- Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867
- Sphaerodoridae Malmgren, 1867
- Syllidae Grube, 1850
- Tomopteridae Johnston, 1865
- Typhloscolecidae Uljanin, 1878
Incertae sedis
- Aberrantidae Wolf, 1987
- NerillidaeNerillidaeNerillida is a family of invertebrates containing the following genera:* Meganerilla* Mesonerilla* Nerilla* Nerillidium* Nerillidopsis* Paranerilla* Psammoriedlia* Thalassochaetus* Troglochaetus...
Levinsen, 1883 - SpintheridaeSpintheridaeSpintheridae is a family of invertebrates with a single genus Spinther containing the following species:* Spinther alaskensis Hartman, 1948* Spinther arcticus * Spinther citrinus...
Johnston, 1865