Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Maldanidae > Subfamily Euclymeninae

Johnstonia Quatrefages, 1866

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Johnstonia clymenoides Quatrefages, 1866

Literature

original description	Quatrefages, Armand de. (1866). On the Classification of the Annelides [Translated by W. S. Dallas]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (series 3) 17: 1-24.
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.
status source	Mackie, Andrew S. Y.; Gobin, Judith. (1994). Case 2859. Johnstonia Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida, Polychaeta): Proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 51(1): 10-13.
status source	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). (1995). Opinion 1807: Johnstonia Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida, Polychaeta): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52(2): 204-205.
taxonomy source	Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 2.. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.
taxonomy source	Mackie, Andrew S.Y.; Gobin, Judith. (1993). A review of the genus Johnstonia Quatrefages, 1866 (Polychaeta, Maldanidae), with a description of a new species from Trinidad, West Indies. Zoologica Scripta. 22(3): 229-241.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Johnstonia Quatrefages, 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:129349