Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich. 1982. [Polychaetes of the Suborder Aphroditiformia of the Arctic Ocean and the Northwestern Part of the Pacific, Families Aphroditidae and Polynoidae]. 1-272. FAUNA SSSR, Mnogoshchetinkovyye chervi (Fauna of the USSR, Polychaeta). Moscow.
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1982
Polychaetes of the Suborder Aphroditiformia of the Arctic Ocean and the Northwestern Part of the Pacific, Families Aphroditidae and Polynoidae
FAUNA SSSR, Mnogoshchetinkovyye chervi (Fauna of the USSR
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). A typescript translation by the Canadian translation bureau is online, and includes the figures.
[The morphological characters of the suborder Aphroditiforrnia of the
order Phyllodocemorpha are discussed. Special attention is paid to the
beginning of the first stages of heteronomy which is of great importance to
the evolution of the Polychaeta. A new system of generic phylogenetic
relations is presented for the family Polynoidae which is represented in the
suborder by the largest number of genera and species. Two parallel lines of
development from many-segmented to few-segmented worms are noted within this
family. One hundred and twenty-five species and smaller taxonomic units of
Aphroditidae and Polynoidae from areas of the Arctic Ocean and the northwestern part of the Pacific from the Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin inclusively have been described. Many of the generic diagnoses have been added to. Keys to all the taxa are included, along with 17 text illustrations, 69 plates and 415 bibliographic citations]
