Fauveliopsidae

{{Short description|Family of polychaeta}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Fauveliopsidae | authority = Hartman, 1971<ref name=irmng/> }}

'''Fauveliopsidae''' is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Terebellida.<ref name="GBIF">{{cite web |title=Fauveliopsidae |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7094 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=12 June 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="irmng">{{Cite web |title=IRMNG - Fauveliopsidae Hartman, 1971 |url=https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108844 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.irmng.org}}</ref> The genus name honours Pierre Fauvel.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Salazar-Vallejo |first1=Sergio I. |last2=Zhadan |first2=Anna E. |last3=Rizzo |first3=Alexandra E. |date=2019-07-12 |title=Revision of Fauveliopsidae Hartman, 1971 (Annelida, Sedentaria) |url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4637.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4637 |issue=1 |pages=1–67 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4637.1.1 |pmid=31712490 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

It is a small family, containing only three genera and about twenty species. They are benthic animals, noted for their habit of sometimes living in the empty shells of dead gastropods, scaphopods, and foraminiferans.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zhadan |first1=Anna |last2=Atroshchenko |first2=Margarita |date=2012-06-04 |title=A new species of Fauveliopsidae (Annelida) from the North Sea |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/2664/ |journal=ZooKeys |language=en |issue=181 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.181.2712 |issn=1313-2970|doi-access=free |pmid=22539907 |pmc=3332017 |bibcode=2012ZooK..181....1Z }}</ref>

Genera:<ref name="GBIF" /> * ''Fauveliopsis'' McIntosh, 1922 * ''Laubieriopsis'' Petersen, 2000 * ''Riseriopsis'' Salazar-Vallejo, Zhadan & Rizzo, 2019

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Category:Polychaetes