original description
Levinsen, G.M.R. (1883). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn, 1882.</em> 160-251., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34979059
page(s): 180 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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 [details]
additional 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 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Gonzalez, Brett C.; Martínez, Alejandro; Borda, Elizabeth; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny; Worsaae, Katrine. (2018). Phylogeny and systematics of Aphroditiformia. <em>Cladistics.</em> 34(3): 225-259., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12202/full [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Zhang, Yanjie; Sun, Jin; Rouse, Greg W.; Wiklund, Helena; Pleijel, Fredrik; Watanabe, Hiromi K.; Chen, Chong; Qian, Pei-Yuan; Qiu, Jian-Wen. (2018). Phylogeny, evolution and mitochondrial gene order rearrangement in scale worms (Aphroditiformia, Annelida). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 125: 220-231., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790317307376 [details]
identification resource
Barnich, Ruth. (2011). Identification of scale worms in British and Irish waters. NMBAQC 2010 taxonomic workshop, Dove Marine Laboratory. 52 pp., available online at http://www.nmbaqcs.org/scheme-components/invertebrates/literature-and-taxonomic-keys/identification-of-scale-worms.aspx [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Superfamilies under suborder Aphroditiformia are currently disused and equivalent, therefore all, including Aphroditoidea, are superfluous. [details]