Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Hesionidae > Subfamily Hesioninae > Tribe Hesionini

Leocrates Kinberg, 1866

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leocrates chinensis Kinberg, 1866
Leocrates claparedii (Costa in Claparède, 1868)

Literature

original description	Kinberg, J. G. H. (1866). Annulata Nova. Continuatio. [various errantia & sedentaria]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(4): 239-258.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
additional source	Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta. 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables.
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.
taxonomy source	Wang, Zhi; Qiu Jian-Wen & Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2018). Redescription of Leocrates chinensis Kinberg, 1866 (Annelida, Hesionidae). Zoological Studies. 57(5): 1-11.
taxonomy source	Pettibone, Marian H. (1970). Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Some additional polychaetes of the Polynoidae, Hesionidae, Nereidae, Goniadidae, Eunicidae, and Onuphidae, selected as new species by the late Dr. Hermann Augener with remarks on other related species, in M. Weber, L.F. Beaufort and J.H. Stock eds., Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900. Leiden, E.J. Brill, p. 199-270.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leocrates Kinberg, 1866. 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:129312