Subclass PHYLLODOCIDA

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The name Phyllodocida was coined by Dales (1962) and was subsequently used by other workers such as Fauchald (1977) and Pettibone (1982) for essentially the same group of polychaetes. Rouse & Fauchald (1997) found strong support for the monophyly of this assemblage, and continued the use of the name Phyllodocida. Prior to Dales (1962) the group had never been regarded as a monophyletic taxon. In some classifications, for example, Uschakov (1955) Phyllodoce-morpha and Nereimorpha were given equal rank in the Errantia, along with the Eunicimorpha and Amphinomorpha. In other classifications members of the Phyllodocida were placed with eunicids and amphinomids as the Rapacia or Nereimorpha (for example, Benham 1896; Hatschek 1893), thus corresponding to the taxon Aciculata used in Beesley et al. (2000).

See Rouse (2000) for further detail on the group.

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2000. Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia Vol. 4A Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 Part A xii 1-465 pp.

Benham, W.B. 1896. Archiannelida, Polychaeta, Myzostomaria. pp. 239-344 in Harmer, S.F. & Shipley, A.E. (eds). The Cambridge Natural History. London : Macmillan & Co.

Dales, R.P. 1962. The polychaete stomatodeum and the inter-relationship of the families of the Polychaeta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 139: 389-428

Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Series 28: 1-188

Hatschek, B. 1893. System der Anneliden, ein vorläufiger Bericht. Lotos. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 13: 123-126

Pettibone, M.H. 1982. Annelida. pp. 1-43 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co. Vol. 2.

Rouse, G.W. 2000. Phyllodocida. 112 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Glasby, C.J. (eds). Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia Vol. 4A Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 Part A xii 1-465 pp.

Rouse, G.W. & Fauchald, K. 1997. Cladistics and polychaetes. Zoologica Scripta 26: 139-204

Uschakov, P.V. 1955. Polychaeta from the Far-Eastern Seas of the USSR. Moscow : Akademiya NAUK SSS pp. 1-443. [translated from Russian by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1965]

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