Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Acoetidae

Polyodontes Blainville, 1828

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Phyllodoce Ranzani, 1817 junior homonym

Children

Polyodontes maxillosus (Ranzani, 1817)

Literature

original description

Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes [entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris.

additional source

Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polyodontes Blainville, 1828. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129137

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2018-01-11 by Geoffrey Read

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