Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Cirratuliformia > Family Flabelligeridae

Pherusa Oken, 1807

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Flemingia*	Johnston, 1846	synonym

Children

Pherusa arctica Støp-Bowitz, 1948
Pherusa plumosa (Müller, 1776)

Literature

original description	Oken, Lorenz. (1807). Stud. den 23 Julius 1807 [Meeting report of the Academy]. Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen unter der Aufsicht der königlichen Gesellschaft zu Wissenschaften. 2 (117): 1161-1168.
additional source	Støp-Bowitz, Carl 1948. Les Flabelligériens Norvégiens. Bergens Museums Arbok.Naturvitenskapelig.rekke., 1946-1947(2): 1-59.
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.
taxonomy source	Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Revision of Pherusa Oken, 1807 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). Zootaxa. 3886(1): 1-61.