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Nomenclature within the Goniadidae follows the revision of Böggemann 2005.
Use of Pilargidae instead of Pilargiidae follows Licher 1994.
Use of Nereididae instead of Nereidae follows Pettibone 1971.
Uncertainty of familial placement of Hesionella and Microphthalmus (formerly in
Hesionidae) follows Pleijel & Dahlgren 1998.
Use of Oenonidae instead of Arabellidae follows Orensanz 1990.
Placement of Artacamella in Trichobranchidae follows Holthe 1977
Inclusion of the Siboglinidae in the Sabellida follows Rouse & Pleijel 2001.
Arrangements of subfamily assignments within the Polychaeta follow:
Ampharetidae - Fauchald 1977
Maldanidae – Fauchald 1977
Nereididae – Fitzhugh 1987
Phyllodocidae – Pleijel 1991
Polynoidae – Salazar-Silva 2006
Sabellariidae – Kirtley 1994
Sabellidae – Fitzhugh 1989
Serpulidae – Fitzhugh 1989
Syllidae – Fauchald 1977
Terebellidae – Fauchald 1977
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum taxa are from Brusca & Brusca 2003.
Within Subphylum Crustacea the revised classification of Martin & Davis 2001
(with some emendation from McLaughlin et al. 2005) is adopted.
Mysid subfamily arrangement follows the cladistic analysis of Meland & Willassen 2007
Ordering of the family taxa within Amphipoda follows Bousfield & Shih 1994 and
Bousfield 2001, and adopts his infraordinal and superfamily concepts in most cases
Allocations of taxa and systematic arrangement within superfamilies of amphipod follow:
Corophioidea – Myers & Lowry 2003
Lysianassoidea – Cadien 2007
Stegocephaloidea – Berge & Vader 2001
Talitroidea – Serejo 2004
Family allocations in the Tanaidacea were modified following Larson & Wilson 2002
Within the decapod infraorder Anomura the hierarchy of Martin & Davis was modified
based on the cladistic analysis of McLaughlin et al. 2007
Superfamily and family placement of Pilumnoides is based on Karasawa & Schweitzer
2006
Phylum Echinodermata
All differences in classification above family are from Maluf 1988.
Phylum Phorona
No exceptions
Phylum Brachiopoda
Placement of Terebratalia in Dallinidae follows Hochberg 1996.
Phylum Ectoprocta
Use of Annectocymidae instead of Diaperoeciidae follows Soule et al. 1995.
Use of Candidae instead of Scrupocellariidae follows Soule et al. 1995.
Placement of Cauloramphus in Calloporidae follows Soule et al. 1995.
Edition 5 9 21 July 2008