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

Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phyllochaetopreus*	[auctt. misspelling]	synonym

Children

Phyllochaetopterus anglicus Potts, 1914
Phyllochaetopterus gracilis Grube, 1863
Phyllochaetopterus major Claparède, 1869
Phyllochaetopterus socialis Claparède, 1869

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ツノツバサゴカイ属

Literature

original description	Grube, A.E. (1863). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Sechster Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 29: 37-69, and plates 4-6.
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	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.
identification resource	Wang, Yueyun; Li, Xinzheng. (2017). A new species of Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863 (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae) from Hainan Island, South China Sea. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 35(2): 360-366.
identification resource	Nishi, E.; Rouse, G.W. 2007. A new species of Phyllochaetopterus (Chaetopteridae : Annelida) from near hydrothermal vents in the Lau Basin, western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa (1621): 55-64
biology source	Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama; Chen, Chong; Nishi, Eijiroh; Ohara, Yasuhiko. (2021). Cryptic diversity of the tube-dwelling polychaete Phyllochaetopterus in the Shinkai Seep Field, Mariana Trench. Plankton and Benthos Research. 16(1): 73-77.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863. 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:129232