TY  - JOUR
AB  - Questidae is a poorly known polychaete family with many unusual characters, particularly with regard to its reproductive organs. Its taxonomic position remains uncertain, which can be partly referred to the limited material described to date. New material, mostly from shallow sublittoral sediments, shows that questids have a circummundane distribution. <i>Questa</i> Hartman, 1966 is revised to include <i>Novaquesta</i> Hobson, 1970 as a junior synonym. Eight species of questids are assigned to <i>Questa</i>, four of them are new to science: <i>Questa bicirrata</i> sp. n., <i>Q. paucibranchiata</i> sp. n., <i>Q. mediterranea</i> sp. n., and <i>Q. riseri</i> sp. n. Character patterns of the questid polychaetes described so far are cladistically analysed. The limitation of informative characters causes ambiguity in the most parsimonious reconstruction of the phylogeny of the family, and therefore, the Questidae is proposed to be classified as comprising only one genus.
A1  - Giere, O.
A1  - Erséus, C.
DO  - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00466.x
JO  - Zoologica Scripta
N1  - Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB
IS  - 4
SP  - 345
EP  - 360
C1  - 27(4): 345-360
TI  - A systematic account of the Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta), with description of new taxa
UR  - https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=49961
VL  - 27
PY  - 1998
Y2  - 2026-07-17
ER  -