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Hesioninae

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Subfamily of annelids

Hesioninae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: 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.

Footnotes

  1. WoRMS (2008)

References

Taxon identifiers
Hesioninae


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