Amphinomida

Fireworm Chloeia sp., copyright Francesco de Marchi.

Belongs within: Aciculata.

The Amphinomida are a group of mobile polychaete worms characterised by the presence of well-developed gills behind the notopodia.

<==Amphinomida RP07
    |--Euphrosine [Euphrosinidae] RP07
    `--Amphinomidae SS07
         |  i. s.: Amphinome Bruguière 1789 H62
         |           `--*A. rostrata (Pallas 1766) [=Aphrodita rostrata] H62
         |         Meringosoma Ehlers 1869 H62
         |           `--*M. curtum Ehlers 1869 H62
         |         Paleocampa anthrax PTV14
         |--Hipponoe gaudichaudi (Audouin & Milne-Edwards 1830) RP07
         `--+--Paramphinome jeffreysii (Mcintosh 1868) SS07
            `--+--Eurythoe complanata (Pallas 1766) SS07
               |--Hermodice carunculata (Pallas 1766) RP07
               `--Chloeia SS07
                    |--C. euglochis H04
                    `--C. pinnata Moore 1911 SS07

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[H04] Haeckel, E. 1899–1904. Kunstformen der Natur. Bibliographisches Institut: Leipzig und Wien.

[H62] Howell, B. F. 1962. Worms. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt W. Miscellanea: Conodonts, Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils and Problematica pp. W144–W177. Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press.

[PTV14] Parry, L., A. Tanner & J. Vinther. 2014. The origin of annelids. Palaeontology 57 (6): 1091–1103.

[RP07] Rousset, V., F. Pleijel, G. W. Rouse, C. Erséus & M. E. Siddall. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of annelids. Cladistics 23: 41–63.

[SS07] Struck, T. H., N. Schutt, T. Kusen, E. Hickman, C. Bleidorn, D. McHugh & K. M. Halanych. 2007. Annelid phylogeny and the status of Sipuncula and Echiura. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 57.