Hesioninae

Hesioninae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Subclass: Palpata
Order: Aciculata
Suborder: Phyllodocida
Family: Hesionidae
Subfamily: Hesioninae
Grube, 1850
Tribes

Hesionini
Psamathini

Hesioninae are a subfamily of phyllodocid "bristle worms" (class Polychaeta). They are (like almost all polychaetes) marine organisms; most are found on the continental shelf.

They are divided into two tribes, of which at least the Psamathini seem to represent a good clade.[1]

Footnotes

  1. WoRMS (2008)

References


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