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

Spiochaetopterus M Sars, 1856

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Telepsavus*	Costa, 1861	generic synonym

Children

Spiochaetopterus bergensis Gitay, 1969
Spiochaetopterus costarum (Claparède, 1869)
Spiochaetopterus solitarius (Rioja, 1917)
Spiochaetopterus typicus M Sars, 1856

Literature

original description	Sars, M. (1856). Nye Annelider. Fauna littoralis Norvegiae (Fredrik D. Beyer. Bergen). heft 2:1-24.
additional source	Sars, M. (1853). Bemaerkninger over det Adriatiske Havs Fauna sammenlignet med Nordhavets. Nyt Mag. Naturvid. 7 : 367-397.
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	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	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
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.
redescription	Webster, Harrison Edwin. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of the Virginian coast. Transactions of the Albany Institute. 9: 202-269, plates I-XI.
redescription	Gitay, Asher. (1969). A contribution to the revision of Spiochaetopterus (Chaetopteridae, Polychaeta). Sarsia. 37: 9-20.
identification resource	Bhaud, Michel R. (1998). Species of Spiochaetopterus (Polychaeta, Chaetopteridae) in the Atlantic-Mediterranean biogeographic area. Sarsia. 83: 243-263.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spiochaetopterus M Sars, 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:129233