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

Laetmonice Kinberg, 1856

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Hermione Blainville, 1828 junior homonym
Hermonia Hartman, 1959 junior homonym

Children

Laetmonice filicornis Kinberg, 1856
Laetmonice hystrix (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)
Laetmonice producta Grube, 1877

Literature

original description

Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856].

additional source

Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2003). The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 559: 1-167.

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.

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

Flaxman, Beth; Kupriyanova, Elena. (2024). New species of Laetmonice (Aphroditidae, Annelida) from bathyal and abyssal depths around Australia. Records of the Australian Museum. 76(4): 195-210.

biology source

Watanabe, H. K.; Uyeno, D.; Yamamori, L.; Jimi, N.; Chen, C. (2023). From commensalism to parasitism within a genus-level clade of barnacles. Biology Letters. 19(20220550):1-6.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Laetmonice Kinberg, 1856. 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:129196

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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

2021-07-13 by Geoffrey Read

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