A Taxonomic Listing of Benthic Macro- and Megainvertebrates - scamit

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.
Arrangement and nomenclature within the Pycnogonida follows Bamber 2007.
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 amphipods follow:
Corophioidea – Myers & Lowry 2003.
Lysianassoidea – Cadien 2007, as modified by Lowry & Stoddart 2012a, b.
Stegocephaloidea – Berge & Vader 2001.
Talitroidea – Serejo 2004.
Removal of the Maera-clade of amphipods from the Melitidae to their own family follows
Krapp-Schickel 2008.
Subordinal and superfamilial taxa in Isopoda follow Brandt & Poore 2003.
Family allocations in Anthuridea follow Poore 2001.
Family allocations in the Tanaidacea follow Larson & Wilson 2002.
Nomenclature within the Order Decapoda follows De Grave et al 2009, with galatheoids
after Ahyong et al 2010.
Phylum Echinodermata
Differences in classification above family are from Maluf 1988, or Kroh & Smith 2010.
Arrangement of Ophiuroidea follows suggestions of Smith et al 1995
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.
Placement of Celleporaria in Celloporariidae follows Soule et al 1995.
Phylum Chordata
No exceptions.
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