ESCARPIIDAE Jones, 1985

Southward, Eve C., Schulze, Anja & Tunnicliffe, Verena, 2002, Vestimentiferans (Pogonophora) in the Paci c and Indian Oceans: a new genus from Lihir Island (Papua New Guinea) and the Java Trench, with the rst report of Arcovestia ivanovi from the North Fiji Basin, Journal of Natural History 36 (10), pp. 1179-1197 : 1182-1183

Family ESCARPIIDAE Jones, 1985 , amended (amendments are underlined)

Vestimentiferan worms with tapering tubes and bodies; the tubes may or may not have external collars and an anterior funnel; orientation of major branchial blood vessels basal; orientation of branchial lamellae relative to obturaculum axial and parallel; laments of branchial plume of two kinds, grouped; plume lacking peripheral lamellar sheaths; anterior surface of obturaculum encrusted; median spike or lamella present; internally paired excretory ducts with single, medial, external pore; posteroventral margin of vestimentum entire or divided; setae of opisthosoma in single to triple rows.