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Polychaeta taxon detailsIphionidae Kinberg, 1856
155222 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155222)
accepted
Family
Iphioninae Kinberg, 1856 · unaccepted > superseded rank (superseded subsequent rank, not...)
superseded subsequent rank, not needed within Iphionidae
marine,
recent only
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 383 [as family Iphionea] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Iphionidae Kinberg, 1856. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155222 on 2026-06-10
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original description
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 383 [as family Iphionea] [details] taxonomy source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; Piotrowski, Christina N.; Paulay, Gustav. (2024). Revision of Iphione Kinberg, 1856 (Annelida, Aphroditiformia, Iphionidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5548(1): 1-84., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5548.1.1 note: Genus Iphione revision [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 page(s): 56 in key, 63 with diagnosis of Iphione; note: As Iphioninae within Polynoidae. No diagnosis except for genus diagnosis of Iphione [details] status source Baird, William. (1865). Contributions towards a monograph of the species of <i>Annelides</i> belonging to the <i>Aphroditacea</i>, containing a list of the known species, and a description of some new species contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(31-32): 172-202., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601914 page(s): 181; note: As family Iphionidae, crediting Kinberg's Iphionea family, and Polynoae Iphionae of Savigny as synonyms [details]  status source McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426 page(s): 58; note: McIntosh creates Iphionella new genus for Iphione cimex Quatrefages within Polynoidae, so appears not to recognize Iphionidae or Iphioninae. [details] status source Pettibone, Marian H. (1986). Review of the Iphioninae (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) and revision of <i>Iphione cimex</i> Quatrefages, <i>Gattyana deludens</i> Fauvel and <i>Harmothoe iphionelloides</i> Johnson (Harmothoinae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 428: 1-43., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.428 [details] Available for editors [request]status source Norlinder, Erika; Nygren, Arne; Wiklund, Helena; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2012). Phylogeny of scale-worms (Aphroditiformia, Annelida), assessed from 18SrRNA, 28SrRNA, 16SrRNA, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), and morphology. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 65(2): 490-500., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.002 page(s): 498 [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Authority Alongside other well-accepted scaleworm families Kinberg (1856) included the family Iphionea [note spelling] for new genus Iphione for I. ovata n.sp. and I. muricata, formerly Eumolpe muricata. In her thorough review of the nomenclatural history Pettibone (1986:5) preferred to assign Baird (1865) as author of the family, on the sound basis that he first used Iphionidae with the 'idae' standard form of family name. However, Kinberg (1856) had recognised the taxon as a family-level group (significantly this full family rank assignment was followed by Baird and others), and the code does not exclude early variant family name spellings based on the type genus. [details]Classification Created as full family rank, but raised again to family from previous usage as subfamily status (Iphioninae) within Polynoidae by Norlinder et al. (2012) [details] Diagnosis According to Gonzalez et al (2018 - edited quote) Iphionidae is distinct in morphology among Aphroditiformia for the "presence of stacked/feathered notochaetae. Additional characters included the loss of a median antenna and the presence of areolae or lattice-like structures on the elytra". Molecular results place these iphionid genera alongside Pholoe-group, and separated from polynoids and sigalionids [details] |
