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Table 1 Number of species and dispersal potential (in parentheses) by family of polychaetes from the Gulf of California

From: Geographical patterns in species richness of the benthic polychaetes in the continental shelf of the Gulf of California, Mexican Pacific

Family

No. of species

Family

No. of species

Acoetidae (undet.)

4

Onuphidae (low)

17

Ampharetidae (low)

8

Opheliidae (high)

4

Amphinomidae (high)

3

Orbiniidae (medium)

8

Capitellidae (high)

10

Oweniidae (high)

1

Chaetopteridae (high)

1

Paraonidae (undet.)

11

Chrysopetalidae (undet.)

1

Phyllodocidae (high)

9

Cirratulidae (medium)

11

Pilargidae (undet.)

5

Cossuridae (undet.)

2

Pisionidae (undet.)

1

Dorvilleidae (medium)

2

Poecilochaetidae (high)

1

Eulepethidae (undet.)

1

Polynoidae (high)

7

Eunicidae (high)

6

Sabellidae (medium)

9

Euphrosinidae (undet.)

1

Serpulidae (high)

1

Flabelligeridae (undet.)

4

Sigalionidae (high)

6

Glyceridae (high)

6

Spionidae (medium)

21

Goniadidae (high)

4

Sternaspidae (undet.)

1

Hesionidae (high)

4

Syllidae (low)

7

Longosomatidae (undet.)

1

Terebellidae (medium)

12

Lumbrineridae (low)

14

Trichobranchidae (low)

6

Magelonidae (high)

5

  

Maldanidae (low)

8

  

Nephtyidae (high)

6

Total species

244

Nereididae (medium)

12

Total families

41

Oenonidae (undet.)

3

  
  1. Based on Carson and Hentschel (2006); Undet. = undetermined