Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Eunicida > Family Onuphidae > Subfamily Onuphinae

Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Epidiopatra*	Augener, 1918	generic synonym

Children

Diopatra hupferiana (Augener, 1918)
Diopatra madeirensis Langerhans, 1880
Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841

Literature

original description	Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1833). [Part 2.] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris. sér. 1, 28: 187-247.
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). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
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.
source of synonymy	Budaeva, N.; Fauchald, K. (2011). Phylogeny of the Diopatra generic complex with a revision of Paradiopatra Ehlres [sic], 1887 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 163(2), 319-436.
taxonomy source	Hektoen, Martin M.;Willassen, Endre; Budaeva, Nataliya. (2022). Phylogeny and Cryptic Diversity of Diopatra (Onuphidae, Annelida) in the East Atlantic. Biology. 11(2)(327):1-25.
ecology source	Bharathidasan, Veeraiyan; Borisanova, Anastasia O.; Sarathy, Palanivel Partha; Murugesan, Perumal. (2022). New entoproct-polychaete association recorded in the Bay of Bengal, southeastern coast of India. Zootaxa. 5100(4): 482-500.
biology source	Arias, Andrés; Woodin, Sarah A.; Paxton, Hannelore. (2023). An Introduction to Diopatra, the Amazing Ecosystem Engineering Polychaete. Biology. 12(7: 1027): 1-20.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833. 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:129398