Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Superclass Annelida incertae sedis > Order Myzostomida > Family Myzostomatidae

Myzostoma Leuckart, 1836

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Myzostomum*	Leuckart, 1827	synonym; nom. nud.

Children

Myzostoma alatum Graff, 1884
Myzostoma bucchichii Wagner, 1887
Myzostoma carpenteri Graff, 1884
Myzostoma cirriferum Leuckart, 1836
Myzostoma giganteum Nansen, 1885
Myzostoma glabrum Graff, 1877
Myzostoma ingolfi Jägersten, 1940
Myzostoma parasiticum Leuckart, 1827
Myzostoma pluvinar von Graff, 1884

Literature

original description	Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1836). Beziehung auf den Haarstern (Comatula) und Penacrinus europeaus, so wie auf der Schmarotzerthier auf Comatula. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur-und Heilkunde, gesammelt und mitgetheilt von Dr. L. G. V. Froriep. 50(9, no. 1087): 129-131.
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	Grygier, Mark J. 1992. Hong Kong Myzostomida and their Indo-Pacific distributions, in B. Morton ed., The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 11-29 April 1989: Hong Kong, Hong Kong University press, p. 131-147.
taxonomy source	Graff, Ludwig von. (1877). Das Genus Myzostoma (F.S. Leuckart). 1-82. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Myzostoma Leuckart, 1836. 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:129364