Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Family Chaetopteridae

Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tricoelia*	Renier, 1804	synonym

Children

Chaetopterus norvegicus M. Sars, 1835
Chaetopterus sarsii Boeck in Sars, 1861
Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

French: chétoptère sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

Japanese: ツバサゴカイ属

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. (1830). Le règne animal distingué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [The animal kingdom distinguished according to its organization, to serve as a basis for the natural history of animals and as an introduction to comparative anatomy]. Paris: Déterville & Crochard. Nouvelle édition 2, Vol. 3: 1-504, pls. 1-20.
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	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
additional source	Dicquemarre, Jacques François [aka: l'abbé Dicquemarre, & Dicquemare]. (1778). Menagerie marine , animaux singuliers. Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle [aka: Observations et Mémoires sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts et Métiers]. 12 (2): 281-285, plates 1-2.
ecology source	Pröts, P.; Wanninger, A.; Schwaha, T. (2019). Life in a tube: morphology of the ctenostome bryozoan Hypophorella expansa. Zoological Letters. 5(1): 17 pages.
ecology source	Newbigin, Marion I. 1898. On certain green (chlorophylloid) pigments in invertebrates. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, London (series 2) 41: 391-438.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830. 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:129229