WoRMS taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1971).[use for POLYCHAETA] Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta 1-594. IN: Dahl, Maria and Peus, Fritz (Ed.). Vol. 58. Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Maermalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 134 [details]
status source
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2019). Phylogeny of Microphthalminae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971, and revision of Hesionella Hartman, 1939, and Struwela Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 (Annelida, Errantia). <em>PeerJ.</em> 7: e7723: 1-35., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/7723 page(s): 17 of 35; note: rank upgrade to family for Microphthalminae. Includes key to Microphthalmidae genera [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Classification Hesionides and Microphthalmus (Microphthalminae) are interstitial animals traditionally placed in Hesionidae. However, as noted by Rouse & Pleijel (2003) and others, morphological and molecular studies indicate they lie outside, with uncertain position within Nereidiformia [details]
Diagnosis Diagnosis emended (Salazar-Vallejo et al 2019). Body small, delicate, rarely longer than five mm. Prostomium with 0_2 eyes. Antennae filiform. Palps filiform, sometimes missing. Tentacular cirri usually on 2_3 distinct segments. Dorsal cirri thin, smooth, thread-shaped. Parapodia biramous or subbiramous, lateral, rarely directed ventrally or dorsally. Pygidium transformed into an anal membrane, with angular or lobate anal cirri. No jaws. Free-living, rarely symbiotic with sand dollars, polychaetes or sipunculans. [details]
Status Microphthalminae was raised to family level by Salazar-Vallejo et al (2019) [details]
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