Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Capitellidae

Mediomastus Hartman, 1944

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Mediomastus capensis Day, 1961
Mediomastus cirripes Ben-Eliahu, 1976
Mediomastus fragilis Rasmussen, 1973

Literature

original description	Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. 10(2): 239-307, plates 19-26.
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.
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
taxonomy source	Warren, Lynda M.; Hutchings, Patricia A.; Doyle, Sue. (1994). A revision of the genus Mediomastus Hartman, 1944 (Polychaeta: Capitellidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 46(3): 227-256.
identification resource	Tomioka, Shinri; Nishi, Eijiroh; Kajihara, Hiroshi. (2014). Two new species of Mediomastus (Annelida, Capitellidae) from Tokyo Bay, Japan. Zookeys. 422: 115-126.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Mediomastus Hartman, 1944. 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:129218