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

Melythasides Desbruyères, 1978

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Melythasides laubieri Desbruyères, 1978

Literature

original description	Desbruyères, Daniel. (1978). Melythasides laubieri gen. sp. nov. Ampharetidae (Annélides Polychètes sédentaires) abyssal de la mer de Norvège [Melythasides laubieri gen. sp. nov. Ampharetidae (Annélides Polychètes sédentaires) abyssal species from the Norwegian Sea]. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Zoologie. 514(353): 231-238.
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.
source of synonymy	Holthe, T. (1986). Evolution, systematics, and distribution of the Polychaeta Terebellomorpha, with a catalogue of the taxa and a bibliography. Gunneria. 55: 1-236.
source of synonymy	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.
status 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.
status source	Jirkov, I. A. (2009). Revision of Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) with modified thoracic notopodia. Invertebrate Zoology. 5(2): 111-132 [text date 2008].

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Melythasides Desbruyères, 1978. 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:129171