Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Terebelliformia > Family Ampharetidae > Subfamily Ampharetinae

Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Anobothrus gracilis (Malmgren, 1866)

Literature

original description	Levinsen, G.M.R. (1884 (for year 1883)). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn. 45(1883): 95-354 + plates II-III.
additional source	Jirkov, I. A. (2009). Revision of Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) with modified thoracic notopodia. Invertebrate Zoology. 5(2): 111-132 [text date 2008].
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
taxonomy source	Chávez-López, Yessica; Alvestad, Tom; Moore, Jenna M. (2025). A review of Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884, restricted, with reinstatement of Anobothrella Hartman, 1967 and Melythasides Desbruyères, 1978, and redescription of seven species (Annelida, Ampharetidae). Zootaxa. 5601(2): 201-245.
identification resource	Bonifácio, Paulo; Lavesque, Nicolas; Bachelet, Guy; Parapar, Julio. (2015). Anobothrus amourouxi sp. nov., a new species of Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) from the Capbreton Canyon (Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic Ocean). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(5): 961-969.
identification resource	Säring, Friederike; Bick, Andreas; Link, Heike. (2022). A new species of Anobothrus (Polychaeta, Ampharetidae) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), with notes on habitat characteristics and an updated key to the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy. 789(1): 130-152.
identification resource	Alalykina, Inna L.; Polyakova, Neonila E. (2020). New deep-sea species of Anobothrus (Annelida: Ampharetidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and adjacent abyssal regions. Progress in Oceanography. 182: 102237.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884. 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:129158