Genus Lysibranchia Cantone, 1983(uncertain > nomen dubium, junior synonym or incertae sedis, as type species likely a juvenile)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Berthold, A.A. (1827). Naturliche Familien des Thierreichs aus dem Franzosischen. Mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen. Landes-Industrie Comptoirs, Weimar, x + 606 pp. page(s): 227-228; note: first valid use of Eunicidae in the opinion of Fauchald (1992) [details]
WoRMS (2025). Eunicidae Berthold, 1827. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=966 on 2025-07-16
original descriptionBerthold, A.A. (1827). Naturliche Familien des Thierreichs aus dem Franzosischen. Mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen. Landes-Industrie Comptoirs, Weimar, x + 606 pp. page(s): 227-228; note: first valid use of Eunicidae in the opinion of Fauchald (1992) [details]
taxonomy sourceFauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 523: 1-422., available online athttp://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.523[details]
Identification resource
identification resourceZanol, Joana; Hutchings, Pat A.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2020). <em>Eunice</em> <em>sensu lato</em> (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera <em>Eunice</em>, <em>Leodice</em> and <em>Nicidion</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4748(1): 1-43., available online athttps://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4748.1.1 page(s): 42-43; note: Keys to Eunicidae Eunice-group genera, and to Australian Eunice and Leodice [details] Available for editors [request]
Other
additional sourceOrensanz, J.M. (1990). The Eunicemorph polychaete annelids from Antarctic and Subantarctic Seas. With addenda to the Eunicemorpha of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and the Southern Indian Ocean. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 52: 1-183., available online athttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/AR052p0001/summary[details]
additional sourceFauchald, 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 athttp://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf[details]
additional sourceZanol, Joana; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Struck, Torsten H.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2010). Phylogeny of the bristle worm family Eunicidae (Eunicida, Annelida) and the phylogenetic utility of noncongruent 16S, COI and 18S in combined analyses. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 55(2): 660-676., available online athttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.024[details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Authority The author of Eunicidae is Berthold (1827: 227) according to Fauchald (1992: 2) as Berthold's translation of Latreille was the first to use the name in a valid -idae form. Lamarck (1818) used the family concept, but as 'Eunicae' without using genus Eunice, and Latreille (1825: 239) used 'Eunicaea' as the formal family name. Berthold's work is simply a translation to German of Latreille's work in French. However, this interpretation of Fauchald might be debatable because the 1999 ICZN Code, Article 11.7.2 allows unlatinized family names to be available if "generally accepted as valid ... " and as dating from first publication in vernacular form. This requirement is rather subjective, but if so, Latreille, 1825 might be the author and date of the family. However, the Hartman catalogue used "Savigny" (really it would be Lamarck, 1818). Since Berthold has been adopted in literature since 1992 there seems no need to revisit the authorship/date question, unless there was a synonymous family name published around the same era. [details]