Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Annelida - (Class) Polychaeta - (Order) Phyllodocida

Original entries

Acanthopale (Genus) G. San Martín, 1986

Current position

Nereidiformia (Suborder)

Ref: F. Pleijel, 2001: 89. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Aciculata (Order) Rouse & Fauchald, 1997	Ref: Species 2000, 2003
Aphroditacea (Superfamily) Malmgren, 1867
Aphroditoidea (Superfamily) Malmgren, 1867	Ref: G. Hartmann-Schröder, 1996: 85.
Nereidiformia ([unranked])	Ref: F. Pleijel, 2001: 89.
Phyllodocida (Order) Dales, 1962	Ref: M.H. Pettibone, 1982: 15.
Phyllodocida ([unranked])	Ref: G.W. Rouse & K. Fauchald, 1997: 204.

Historical positions

Nereidiformia ([unranked])	Ref: F. Pleijel, 2001: 89-90; ix, table 1.1, fig. 2.3.
Polychaeta (Class) Grube, 1850	Ref: G. Bellan, 2001: 216.
Phyllodocida ([unranked])	Ref: G.W. Rouse & K. Fauchald, 1997: 163, 204.
Polychaeta (Class) Grube, 1850	Ref: G.B. Read, 1996
Aphroditoidea (Superfamily) Malmgren, 1867	Ref: G. Hartmann-Schröder, 1996: 85.
Phyllodocida (Order) Dales, 1962	Ref: M.H. Pettibone, 1982: 15-16.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	11g;23s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[6g]
1982	M.H. Pettibone: 16	5g;25s