WoRMS taxon details
Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856
Polyodontidae Augener, 1918 · unaccepted (junior homonym)
- Genus Acoetes Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832
- Genus Euarche Ehlers, 1887
- Genus Eupanthalis McIntosh, 1876
- Genus Eupolyodontes Buchanan, 1894
- Genus Neopanthalis Strelzov, 1968
- Genus Panthalis Kinberg, 1856
- Genus Polyodontes Blainville, 1828
- Genus Zachsiella Buzhinskaja, 1982
- Genus Eupompe Kinberg, 1856 accepted as Acoetes Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832 (subjective synonym)
- Genus Phyllodoce Ranzani, 1817 accepted as Polyodontes Blainville, 1828 (suppressed for priority & homonymy by ICZN Opinion 1692)
- Genus Restio Moore, 1903 accepted as Eupanthalis McIntosh, 1876 (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Status Polyodontidae is preoccupied in fishes and replaced by Acoetidae (R. Barnich)
Status Polyodontidae is preoccupied in fishes and replaced by Acoetidae (R. Barnich) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=19199 on 2025-04-26
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Polyodontidae Augener, 1918) Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280
page(s): 119; note: Polyodontidae used without explanation when reporting a Polyodontes and a Eupanthalis species [details]
page(s): 119; note: Polyodontidae used without explanation when reporting a Polyodontes and a Eupanthalis species [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2003). The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 559: 1-167., available online at http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510613533/The-Aphroditoidea-Annelida-Polychaeta-of-the-Mediterranean-Sea [details] Available for editors 
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taxonomy source Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.464 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]taxonomy source Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.464 [details] Available for editors
[request]Identification resource
identification resource
Barnich, Ruth. (2011). Identification of scale worms in British and Irish waters. NMBAQC 2010 taxonomic workshop, Dove Marine Laboratory. 52 pp., available online at http://www.nmbaqcs.org/scheme-components/invertebrates/literature-and-taxonomic-keys/identification-of-scale-worms.aspx [details]
Other
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Classification The genus Pseudeupanthalis Fauvel, 1958 was created in Acoetinae, but later taxonomists regard it as a junior synonym of Sthenelanella in Sigalionidae (see Fauchald, 1977: 66) [details]Unreviewed
Classification Placement in superfamily Aphroditacea follows the position of Polyodontidae [details]Status Polyodontidae is preoccupied in fishes and replaced by Acoetidae (R. Barnich) [details]
