Flotidae is a family of pelagicpolychaete worms, sometimessynonymized withFlabelligeridae, which they closely resemble. Other sources consider them thesister taxon to Flabelligeridae and closely allied to the latter group.[1][2]
Flotidae originally contained one genus,Flota, from which it derives its name, but a 2007 study also placedBuskiella in the family, and moved all (two)Flota species toBuskiella.[3][4][1] The family would thus contains one genus and three species, listed below.
A 2008 paper analyzing thephylogenetics of flotid polychaetes found that flotids are nested withinFlabelligeridae.[1] However, defenders of the separate family status of Flotidae cite severalmorphological differences.[5]
