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Fauveliopsidae
Sign in to saveFauveliopsidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Terebellida. The genus name honours Pierre Fauvel.
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassPolychaeta
- OrderTerebellida
- FamilyFauveliopsidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 74
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Fauveliopsidae
- Collections
- SIO, USNM, NMV, ALMNH, UF, NRM
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Palau, French Polynesia, Norway
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Terebellida
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- taxon name
- Fauveliopsidae
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- Category:Fauveliopsidae
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Fauveliopsidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Terebellida. The genus name honours Pierre Fauvel.
It is a small family, containing only three genera and about twenty species. They are benthic animals, noted for their habit of sometimes living in the empty shells of dead gastropods, scaphopods, and foraminiferans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fauveliopsidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.