Chamberlin, 1919
Description:
Prostomium with or without antennae or palps.
Peristomium usually of two rings.
First segment with parapodia similar to following ones, without tentacular cirri.
Parapodia usually subbiramous (absent in Dinophilus , Trilobodrilus and Parophryotrocha isochaeta ), with notopodia smaller than neuropodia. Chaetae compound or simple. Dorsal and ventral cirri present or absent.
Pygidium with or without two, three or four anal cirri.
Pharynx eversible with a jaw apparatus (absent in Dinophilus , Trilobodrilus , Parapodrilus psammophilus ) consisting of a pair of mandibles, three or more pairs of maxillae and maxillary carriers that are often fused to the first maxillae (Dorvilleidae).
The following taxa of this family occur in the region:
Genus Arenotrocha
Genus Dinophilus
Genus Dorvillea
Genus Iphitime
Genus Ophryotrocha
Genus Ougia
Genus Parapodrilus
Genus Parophryotrocha
Genus Parougia
Genus Protodorvillea
Genus Pusillotrocha
Genus Trilobodrilus
Arenotrocha minuta
Dinophilus gyrociliatus
Dinophilus taeniatus
Dorvillea erucaeformis
Iphitime hartmanae
Ophryotrocha dubia
Ophryotrocha gerlachi
Ophryotrocha geryonicola
Ophryotrocha gracilis
Ophryotrocha hartmanni
Ophryotrocha longidentata
Ophryotrocha maculata
Ophryotrocha puerilis
Ophryotrocha socialis
Ougia subaequalis
Parapodrilus psammophilus
Parophryotrocha isochaeta
Parougia eliasoni
Protodorvillea kefersteini
Pusillotrocha akessoni
Trilobodrilus axi
Trilobodrilus heideri