Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Annelida - (Class) Polychaeta - (Order) Sabellida - (Family) Spirorbidae

Current position

Spirorbinae (Subfamily) Chamberlin, 1919

Ref: G. Hartmann-Schröder, 1996: 575.

Alternative positions

Operculata (Infraphylum) T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 236. [rough position]
Serpulidae (Family) Savigny, 1818	Ref: A.C. Campbell, 1994 (1976)
Spirorbidae (Family) (Chamberlin, 1919) Pillai, 1970	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990

Historical positions

Operculata (Infraphylum) T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: table 4 (p. 236). [rough position]
Spirorbidae (Family) (Chamberlin, 1919) Pillai, 1970	Ref: G.B. Read, 1996
Spirorbinae (Subfamily) Chamberlin, 1919	Ref: G. Hartmann-Schröder, 1996: 575.
Spirorbidae (Family) (Chamberlin, 1919) Pillai, 1970	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Polychaeta (Class) Grube, 1850	Ref: R.S. Boardman et al., 1987
Spirorbidae (Family) (Chamberlin, 1919) Pillai, 1970	Ref: M.H. Pettibone, 1982: 39.
Sedentaria (Subclass) (Lamarck, 1818)	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Serpulidae (Family) Savigny, 1818	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

2s