Synonymy

• Bathyedithinae Pettibone, 1976

• Type genus: Bathyedithia Pettibone, 1976 (type by original designation)
• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Bathymacellinae Pettibone, 1976

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Branchinotogluminae Pettibone, 1985

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Branchiplicatinae Pettibone, 1985

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Branchipolynoinae Pettibone, 1984

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Gesiellinae Muir, 1982

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Macellicephaloidinae Pettibone, 1976

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Macelloidinae Pettibone, 1976

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Polaruschakovinae Pettibone, 1976

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

• Vampiropolynoinae Marcus & Hourdez, 2002

• Synonymised by Bonifácio & Menot, (2018)

Primary references

• Bonifácio, P., Menot, L. 2018. New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185(3): 555-635. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly063 Reference page.  [source of synonymy; see p. 576-577, 627]
• Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1971. Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta. 1-594. In Dahl, Maria and Peus, Fritz (Ed.). Vol. 58. Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Maermalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena. DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19720570214 Reference page. 
• Muir, Alex I. 1982. Generic characters in the Polynoinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) with notes on the higher classification of scale-worms (Aphroditacea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 43(3): 153-177. [original description of Gesiellinae]
• Pettibone, M.H. 1976. Revision of the genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 229: 1–71. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.229 Reference page.  [p. 6-8] [original description of Bathyedithinae: p. 53]

Additional references

• Jimi, N., Fujiwara, Y. & Kajihara, H. 2018. New annelid species from the deepest known whale-fall environment: Bathykermadeca thanatos sp. nov. (Annelida: Polynoidae). Zootaxa 4450(5): 575–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.4 Reference page. 
• Neal, L., Brasier, M.J. & Wilund, H. 2018. Six new species of Macellicephala (Annelida: Polynoidae) from the Southern Ocean and south Atlantic with re-description of type species. Zootaxa 4455(1): 1–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.1 Reference page. 
• Wu, X-W. & Xu, K-D. 2018. Levensteiniella manusensis sp. nov., a new polychaete species (Annelida: Polynoidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Manus Back-Arc Basin, Western Pacific. Zootaxa 4388(1): 102–110. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.1.7 Reference page. 
• Zhou, Y-D, Wang, Y-Y., Zheng, D-S. & Wang, C-S. 2018. Branchinotogluma bipapillata n. sp., a new branchiate scale worm (Annelida: Polynoidae) from two hydrothermal fields on the Southwest Indian Ridge. Zootaxa 4482(3): 527–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.3.5 Reference page. 

Links

• Macellicephalinae in the World Register of Marine Species
• BHL bibliography
• Hassler, M. {{{1}}}. Macellicephalinae. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. {{{1}}}. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: {{{1}}} {{{2}}} {{{3}}}. Reference page. 
• Macellicephalinae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Macellicephalinae.
• ION