Orbiniidae is a family of polychaete worms.World Register of Marine Species Orbiniids are mostly unselective deposit feeders on marine detritus. They can be found from the neritic zone to abyssal depths.Orbiniidae polychaetes (Polychaeta: Scolecida) from Coiba Island, eastern Pacific of Panama, with description of a new species
The family was revised in 1957 by Olga HartmanHartman, O. 1957. Orbiniidae, Apistobranchidae, Paraonidae and Longosomidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Exped. 15: 211-393. and some further revisions were made by Blake in 2000.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.
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
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