Hesionidae

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Hesionidae
Oxydromus pugettensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Suborder: Nereidiformia
Family: Hesionidae
Grube, 1850
Subfamilies

Hesioninae
Microphthalminae
Ophiodrominae
and see text

Sirsoe methanicola

Hesionidae are a

methane ice, where it feeds on bacterial biofilms.[1]

A characteristic

parapodia directly, or with just a vestigial cirrophore.[2]

Systematics

As

catworms (Nephtyidae). [3]

Numerous genera are still treated as Hesionidae

[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ C. R. Fisher; I.'R. MacDonald; R. Sassen; C. M. Young; S. A. Macko; S. Hourdez; R. S. Carney; S. Joye; E. McMullin (2000). "Methane ice worms: Hesiocaeca methanicola colonizing fossil fuel reserves" (PDF).
    S2CID 24068068. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2006-02-20.
  2. ^ Pleijel et al. (2008)
  3. ^ Rouse & Fauchald (1998)
  4. ^ Pleijel et al. (2008), WoRMS (2008)
  5. .
  6. ^ Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta)

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