TY - JOUR AB - Acrocirrus Grube and Macrochaeta Grube (Polychaeta Sedentaria), comprising at present 14 species, are removed from the Cirratulidae and placed in a new family. The descriptions of the type species of the genera and of five other species are materially improved. Acrocirrus trisectus and Macrochaeta pege are newly described; Acrocirrus heterochaetus okotensis Imajima is elevated to species rank. Diagnoses and records as well as keys for identification are given for all species of the family. A1 - Banse, K. JO - Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada N1 - World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb) IS - 10 SP - 2595 EP - 2620 C1 - 26(10): 2595-2620 TI - Acrocirridae n.fam. (Polychaeta Sedentaria) UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f69-253 VL - 26 PY - 1969 Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -