Orbiniidae

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Family of annelids

title: "Orbiniidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["polychaetes", "annelid-families"] description: "Family of annelids" topic_path: "general/polychaetes" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiniidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of annelids ::

| image = Orbinia sertulata with detail k.jpg | image_caption = Orbinia sertulata | taxon = Orbiniidae | authority = Hartman, 1942 | display_parents = 4 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = | synonyms = Questidae

Orbiniidae is a family of polychaete worms. Orbiniids are mostly unselective deposit feeders on marine detritus. They can be found from the neritic zone to abyssal depths.

The family was revised in 1957 by Olga Hartman and some further revisions were made by Blake in 2000.

Genera

:Alcandra* :Aricia* Savigny, 1820 :Berkeleyia* :Branchethus* :Califia* :Clytie* :Falklandiella* :Labotas* :Lacydes* :Leitoscoloplos* Day, 1977 :Leodamas* :Microrbinia* Hartman, 1965 :Naidonereis* :Nainereis* Blainville, 1828 :Naineris* Blainville, 1828 :Orbinella* :Orbinia* Quatrefages, 1865 :Orbiniella* Day, 1954 :Paraorbiniella* Rullier, 1974 :Pararicia* :Pettibonella* :Phylo* Kinberg, 1865 :Phylodamas* :Porcia* :Proscoloplos* :Protoaricia* Czerniavsky, 1881 :Protoariciella* Hartmann-Schroder, 1962 :Schroederella* Laubier, 1962 :Scolaricia* :Scoloplella* Day, 1963 :Scoloplos* Blainville, 1828 :Scoloplosia* :Theodisca* :Uncorbinia* :**Uschakovius* Laubier, 1973

References

References

  1. [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=902 World Register of Marine Species]
  2. [http://www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol54-4/26-Lopez-On%20some.pdf Orbiniidae polychaetes (Polychaeta: Scolecida) from Coiba Island, eastern Pacific of Panama, with description of a new species]
  3. Hartman, O. 1957. Orbiniidae, Apistobranchidae, Paraonidae and Longosomidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Exped. 15: 211-393.
  4. Blake, J.A. 2000. A new genus and species of polychaete worm (Family Orbiniidae) from methane seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of the systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera of Orbiniidae. Cah. Biol. Mar. 41: 435-449.

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