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Polychaete families

The following list includes a number of taxa of uncertain affinities. Some may be shown to belong elsewhere within the Annelida.
All are provisionally treated here within the Polychaeta. Invalid family names are listed on another page, together with the accepted name.

Aberrantidae *
Acoetidae
Acrocirridae
Aeolosomatidae
Alciopidae
Alvinellidae *
Ampharetidae
Amphinomidae
Aphroditidae
Apistobranchidae
Arenicolidae
Capitellidae
Chaetopteridae
Chrysopetalidae
Cirratulidae
Cossuridae
Ctenodrilidae
Diurodrilidae
Dorvilleidae
Eulepethidae
Eunicidae
Euphrosinidae

Fauveliopsidae
Flabelligeridae
Flotidae *
Glyceridae
Goniadidae
Hartmaniellidae *
Hesionidae [+ Hesionides, Microphthalmus]
Histriobdellidae
Hrabeiella *
Ichthyotomidae *
Iospilidae
Lacydoniidae
Longosomatidae *
Lopadorhynchidae
Lumbrineridae
Magelonidae
Maldanidae
Myzostomida [not polychaetes]
Nautiliniellidae *
Nephtyidae
Nereididae
Nerillidae

Oenonidae
Onuphidae
Opheliidae
Orbiniidae
Oweniidae
Paralacydoniidae
Paraonidae
Parergodrilidae
Pectinariidae
Pholoidae
Phyllodocidae
Pilargidae
Pisionidae
Poecilochaetidae
Poeobiidae *
Polygordiidae *
Polynoidae
Pontodoridae *
Potamodrilidae *
Protodrilidae
Protodriloididae *
Psammodrilidae *

Questidae
Sabellariidae
Sabellidae
Saccocirridae
Scalibregmatidae
Serpulidae
Siboglinidae
Sigalionidae
Sphaerodoridae
Spintheridae
Spionidae
Sternaspidae
Syllidae
Terebellidae
Tomopteridae
Trichobranchidae
Trochochaetidae *
Typhloscolecidae
Uncispionidae *

*Families marked with an asterisk are not currently recorded from Australia.