original description
Ehlers, E. H. (1864). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985759
page(s): 176; note: As "Alciopea" [details]
original description
(of Alciopidae Ehlers, 1864) Ehlers, E. H. (1864). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985759
page(s): 176; note: as Alciopea, for Alciopa [details]
taxonomy source
San Martín, Guillermo; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Kondo, Yusuke; Núñez, Jorge; Fernández-Álamo, María Ana; Pleijel, Fredrik; Goetz, Freya E.; Nygren, Arne; Osborn, Karen. (2021 (online 2020)). New symbiotic association in marine annelids: ectoparasites of comb jellies. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 191(3): 672-694., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa034/5861555
note: Treated as tribe 'Alciopini', part of Phyllodocidae [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Fauchald, 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 at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
status source
Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. <em>Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2.</em> 354 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 132, 135; note: Treated as tribe 'Alciopini', part of Eteoninae sensu Pleijel (1991) in Phyllodocidae [details]
status source
Rouse, G.W. and Pleijel, Fredrik 2003. Problems in polychaete systematics. Hydrobiologia 496: 175-189., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026188630116
page(s): 185; note: Treated as tribe 'Alciopini', part of Phyllodocidae [details]
identification resource
Rozbaczylo, Nicolás; Moreno, Rodrigo A.; Díaz-Díaz, Oscar; Vásquez-Yáñez, Pamela. (2020). Poliquetos holoplanctónicos en Chile. <em>Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela.</em> 59(1): 140-190.
note: Geographic review [details] Available for editors [request]
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Classification Alciopa (type genus) and related holoplanktonic genera are thought to be part of Phyllodocidae, currently at tribe rank as Alciopini, although for many decades treated as Alciopidae, and independent of, but related to, family Phyllodocidae. For example there is an Alciopidae chapter in Parapar et al (2018, Fauna Iberica).
Ehlers (1894:176) named Alciopidae (as Alciopea) for Alciopa & Liocapa (he also misspelled them as Alciope & Liocape). Family Alciopidae is formally treated as a synonym of Phyllodocidae in Rouse & Pleijel (2001) "since it obviously forms part of that taxon", and the group of taxa is referred to as the tribe 'Alciopini', which Rouse & Pleijel included in the Eteoninae (as "we believe that Alciopini is part of Eteoninae"). Rouse & Pleijel (2003: 185) gave further comment but stated "the matter is complicated by ... uncertainties in the topology of the Phyllodocidae tree ...". A molecular study appearing to support the phyllodocid placement (Struck & Halanych, 2010) was found to have erroneous data, but a re-analysis confirmed Alciopina and Torrea at least (neither is type genus of the alciopids) as nested in Phyllodocidae (Nygren & Pleijel, 2010). A molecular analysis by Leiva et al (2018) placed unnamed Alciopina and Torrea species grouped with Eumida and Sige species (Eteoninae). A molecular analysis by San Martin et al (2020) placed Alciopina, Torrea, & Vanadis species, and their new genus Ctenophoricola, grouped with Eumida and Sige. [details]