Westheide, Wilfried. (2019). Dinophilidae Verrill, 1892. [book section]. Chapt 7 Pleistoannelida, section 7.1.1: 217-234 In: Handbook of Zoology [Annelida. Basal groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria 1, edited by W. Westheide and G. Purschke. Publisher: De Gruyter.
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Dinophilidae Verrill, 1892.
[book section]
Chapt 7 Pleistoannelida, section 7.1.1: 217-234 In: Handbook of Zoology [Annelida. Basal groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria 1, edited by W. Westheide and G. Purschke. Publisher: De Gruyter
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). Access online by subscription only, First online 2018
None. Begins: "Dinophilids include some of the smallest annelid species known with a body length between one and two millimeters and exhibit an extremely low degree of external structural diversity (Westheide 1990, 2008). Nevertheless, they were already well known to marine zoologists on both sides of the Atlantic in the second half of the nineteenth century (Weldon 1886, Korschelt 1887, Harmer 1889, Schimkewitsch 1895) with early comprehensive investigations into their morphology and embryology (Nelson 1904, 1907) constituting highlights of invertebrate zoological research at the time. Dinophilidae contains the two strictly marine genera Dinophilus O. Schmidt, 1857 and Trilobodrilus Remane, 1925. "
