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Seraphidae

Stromboidea

• Seraphidae Gray, 1853

The following genera belong to Seraphidae:

• Diameza Deshayes, 1865
• Mauryna de Gregorio, 1880
• Miniseraphs Jung,1974
• Paraseraphs Jung, 1974
• Seraphs Montfort, 1810
• Terebellum Röding, 1798

Diameza and Miniseraphs are treated as subgenera by Jung, 1974.

Synonyms are:

• Seraps Ferussac, 1822
• Seraphe Blainville, 1825-1827
• Seraphys Gray, 1841
• Serapis Link, 1830
• Seraphsidae Jung, 1974
• Terebellidae Korobkov, 1955
• Terebellidae Sacco, 1893
• Terebellinae De Gregorio, 1880
  • The name Terebellidae is preoccupied, since a polychaete family is named in that way (Terebellidae Grube, 1851: type genus Terebella Linnaeus, 1767) (Jung, 1974)
• The earliest Seraphidae are known from the paleocene. From there to the eocene, there was a rapid morphological development into several genera. Most of them became extinct, only Terebellum survived. (see Jung & Abbott, 1967, Wenz, 1938)

Opinions:

• G. Kronenberg: The name Seraphidae (originally spelled as Seraphina) Gray, 1853 is correct. Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 is a junior synonym, Jung being unaware of the name proposed by Gray
• G. Rosenberg: the correct spelling of the family name is Seraphidae, not Seraphsidae. The genus Seraphs was named by Montfort, 1810. He did not give a derivation, but gave the French equivalent as "Seraphe". Therefore it is clear that the final "s" of Seraphs is not part of the root of the word.

Internet

• Australian Faunal Directory