Aphroditidae

References

Blake, JA. 1996. Family Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867. In Blake, JA and Scott, PH (eds), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Annelida Part 2 Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Syllidae and scale-bearing families), Amphinomida, and Eunicida. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 99-104.

Day, JH. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London.

Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 28, 1-188.

Fauchald, K and Rouse, G. 1997. Polychaete systematics: past and present. Zoologica Scripta 26, 71-138.

Hutchings, P and McRae, J. 1993. The Aphroditidae (Polychaeta) from Australia, together with a redescription of the Aphroditidae collected during the Siboga Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 45, 279-363.

Hutchings, PA. 2000. Family Aphroditidae. In Beesley, PL, Ross, GJB and Glasby, CJ (eds). Polychaetes and Allies: the Southern Synthesis. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 117-121.

Pettibone, MH. 1966. Heteraphrodita altoni, a new genus and species of polychaete worm (Polychaeta, Aphroditidae) from deep water off Oregon, and a revision of the Aphroditid genera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 79, 95-108.

Watson-Russell, C. 1989. Revision of Palmyra Savigny (Polychaeta: Aphroditidae) and redescription of Palmyra aurifera. Beagle 6, 35-53,illustr.

Watson-Russell, C. 1991. Description of two new pontogeniid species (Polychaeta: Aphroditidae) from the south west Pacific. Beagle 8, 15-25.

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