RAS taxon details
Nereididae Blainville, 1818
22496 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22496)
accepted
Family
Nereidae [auctt.] · unaccepted (spelling variation)
- Subfamily Gymnonereidinae Banse, 1977
- Subfamily Nereidinae Blainville, 1818
- Genus Ceratonereis Kinberg, 1865
- Genus Composetia Hartmann-Schröder, 1985
- Genus Eunereis Malmgren, 1865
- Genus Micronereis Claparède, 1863
- Genus Neanthes Kinberg, 1865
- Genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Nicon Kinberg, 1865
- Genus Platynereis Kinberg, 1865
- Subfamily Nereinae [auctt.] accepted as Nereidinae Blainville, 1818
- Subfamily Nereididae incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. <em>Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris.</em> 1818: 78-85., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4146409
page(s): 82 [details]
page(s): 82 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereididae Blainville, 1818. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/rest/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22496 on 2025-09-12
RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Nereididae Blainville, 1818. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22496 on 2025-09-12
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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original description
Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. <em>Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris.</em> 1818: 78-85., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4146409
page(s): 82 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 236 [details] Available for editors
additional source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 143 [details]
additional source Fitzhugh, K. 1987. Phylogenetic relationships within the Nereididae (Polychaeta): Implications at the subfamily level. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 7: 174-183. [details]
additional source Santos, Cinthya S. G., Pleijel, Fredrik, Lana, Paulo and Rouse, G.W. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships within Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida). Invertebrate Systematics 19(6): 557-576. [details]
additional source Bakken, Torkild; Glasby, Christopher J.; Wilson, Robin S. 2009. A review of paragnath morphology in Nereididae (Polychaeta). Zoosymposia 2: 305-316, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zoosymposia/content/2009/v2/index.htm [details]
additional source Banse, Karl. (1977). Gymnonereidinae new subfamily: the Nereididae (Polychaeta) with bifid parapodial neurocirri. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 11(6): 609-628., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937700770541 [details] Available for editors
additional source Latreille, P. A. (1825). Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposé succinctement et dans un ordre analytique avec l'indication de leurs genres. [Natural families of the animal kingdom, briefly presented and in analytical order with an indication of their genera.]. <em>J. B. Baillière, Paris.</em> 570 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16094
page(s): 240 [details]
additional source Bakken, Torkild; Wilson, Robin S. (2005). Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 34(5): 507-547., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00200.x [details] Available for editors
additional source Alves, Paulo R.; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Silva, Edson P.; Santos, Cinthya S. G. (2023). Nereididae (Annelida) phylogeny based on molecular data. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 23(3): 529-541., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-023-00608-9
page(s): 9 of 13; note: Molecular analysis largely leaves genera in unchanged subfamilies but places Nicon & Laeonereis in Nereidinae, formerly in Gymnonereidinae [details] Available for editors
redescription Pettibone, Marian H. (1971). Revision of some species referred to <i>Leptonereis</i>, <i>Nicon</i>, and <i>Laeonereis</i> (Polychaeta: Nereididae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 104: 1-53., available online at http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/5689
page(s): 1 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Wilson, Robin S.; Glasby, Christopher J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2023). The Nereididae (Annelida) – diagnoses, descriptions, and a key to the genera. <em>Zookeys.</em> 1182: 35–134., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/104258/list/9/ [details] Available for editors
identification resource Wilson, Robin Stephen; Glasby, Christopher J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2023). A Taxonomic Information System for Nereididae (Annelida): morphological datasets supporting description, interactive identification and phylogenetic analysis of the family (1.0). <em>[Data set]. Zenodo [repository].</em> , available online at https://zenodo.org/record/7776745 [details]
identification resource Muir, Alexander I.; Hossain, Md. M. Maruf. (2014). The intertidal polychaete (Annelida) fauna of the Sitakunda coast (Chittagong, Bangladesh), with notes on the Capitellidae, Glyceridae, Lumbrineridae, Nephtyidae, Nereididae and Phyllodocidae of the “Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion”. ZOOKEYS. 419: 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.419.7557
page(s): 10 [Bay of Bengal Nereididae key] [details]
identification resource Sato, Masanori. (2017 (dated 2016)). Nereididae (Annelida) in Japan, with Special Reference to Life-History Differentiation Among Estuarine Species. <em>[book chapter].</em> In Motokawa, M.; Kajihara, H. (eds). Species Diversity of Animals in Japan. 477-512., available online at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-56432-4_19 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Hadiyanto, Hadiyanto; Glasby, Christopher J. (2023). Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5239(2): 151-203., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5239.2.1
page(s): 195, key; note: Key to genera and species of Nereididae reported from Western Australia [details] Available for editors
page(s): 82 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 236 [details] Available for editors
additional source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 143 [details]
additional source Fitzhugh, K. 1987. Phylogenetic relationships within the Nereididae (Polychaeta): Implications at the subfamily level. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 7: 174-183. [details]
additional source Santos, Cinthya S. G., Pleijel, Fredrik, Lana, Paulo and Rouse, G.W. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships within Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida). Invertebrate Systematics 19(6): 557-576. [details]
additional source Bakken, Torkild; Glasby, Christopher J.; Wilson, Robin S. 2009. A review of paragnath morphology in Nereididae (Polychaeta). Zoosymposia 2: 305-316, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zoosymposia/content/2009/v2/index.htm [details]
additional source Banse, Karl. (1977). Gymnonereidinae new subfamily: the Nereididae (Polychaeta) with bifid parapodial neurocirri. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 11(6): 609-628., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937700770541 [details] Available for editors
additional source Latreille, P. A. (1825). Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposé succinctement et dans un ordre analytique avec l'indication de leurs genres. [Natural families of the animal kingdom, briefly presented and in analytical order with an indication of their genera.]. <em>J. B. Baillière, Paris.</em> 570 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16094
page(s): 240 [details]
additional source Bakken, Torkild; Wilson, Robin S. (2005). Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 34(5): 507-547., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00200.x [details] Available for editors
additional source Alves, Paulo R.; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Silva, Edson P.; Santos, Cinthya S. G. (2023). Nereididae (Annelida) phylogeny based on molecular data. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 23(3): 529-541., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-023-00608-9
page(s): 9 of 13; note: Molecular analysis largely leaves genera in unchanged subfamilies but places Nicon & Laeonereis in Nereidinae, formerly in Gymnonereidinae [details] Available for editors
redescription Pettibone, Marian H. (1971). Revision of some species referred to <i>Leptonereis</i>, <i>Nicon</i>, and <i>Laeonereis</i> (Polychaeta: Nereididae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 104: 1-53., available online at http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/5689
page(s): 1 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Wilson, Robin S.; Glasby, Christopher J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2023). The Nereididae (Annelida) – diagnoses, descriptions, and a key to the genera. <em>Zookeys.</em> 1182: 35–134., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/104258/list/9/ [details] Available for editors
identification resource Wilson, Robin Stephen; Glasby, Christopher J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2023). A Taxonomic Information System for Nereididae (Annelida): morphological datasets supporting description, interactive identification and phylogenetic analysis of the family (1.0). <em>[Data set]. Zenodo [repository].</em> , available online at https://zenodo.org/record/7776745 [details]
identification resource Muir, Alexander I.; Hossain, Md. M. Maruf. (2014). The intertidal polychaete (Annelida) fauna of the Sitakunda coast (Chittagong, Bangladesh), with notes on the Capitellidae, Glyceridae, Lumbrineridae, Nephtyidae, Nereididae and Phyllodocidae of the “Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion”. ZOOKEYS. 419: 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.419.7557
page(s): 10 [Bay of Bengal Nereididae key] [details]
identification resource Sato, Masanori. (2017 (dated 2016)). Nereididae (Annelida) in Japan, with Special Reference to Life-History Differentiation Among Estuarine Species. <em>[book chapter].</em> In Motokawa, M.; Kajihara, H. (eds). Species Diversity of Animals in Japan. 477-512., available online at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-56432-4_19 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Hadiyanto, Hadiyanto; Glasby, Christopher J. (2023). Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5239(2): 151-203., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5239.2.1
page(s): 195, key; note: Key to genera and species of Nereididae reported from Western Australia [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nereididae)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Nereidae [auctt.])
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Nereidae [auctt.])
To The Arctic Traits Database (28 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 035344)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nereididae)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Nereidae [auctt.])
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Nereidae [auctt.])
To The Arctic Traits Database (28 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 035344)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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