MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Chrysopetalacea

WoRMS name details

Chrysopetalacea

AphiaID

936 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:936)

Classification

Status

uncertain > nomen dubium (superfluous name, no longer required as nominal superfamily)

Rank

Superfamily

Parent

Aphroditiformia

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Chrysopetalacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=936 on 2024-11-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2012-09-19 03:31:54Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2012-10-01 01:22:47Z

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Read, Geoffrey

2013-03-18 22:38:57Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2014-08-14 23:23:02Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

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Notes (1)

basis of record 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 [details]

From editor or global species database

Editor's comment Erected for two families now believed unrelated, Palmyridae (see Aphroditidae) and Chrysopetalidae (see Nereidiformia in Phyllodocida). Thus only in part (Palmyridae) would be a synonym of now disused Aphroditoidea [details]