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

Rhamphobrachium Ehlers, 1887

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Rhamphobrachium (Spinigerium) Paxton, 1986
Rhamphobrachium agassizi Ehlers, 1887
Rhamphobrachium agassizii Ehlers, 1887

Literature

original description	Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 15: vi & 335 pp.
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.
taxonomy source	Paxton, Hannelore; Budaeva, Nataliya. (2015). Minibrachium, a new subgenus of Rhamphobrachium (Annelida: Onuphidae) from Australia with the description of three new species. Zootaxa. 4019(1): 621-634.
taxonomy source	Paxton, Hannelore. (1986). Revision of the Rhamphobrachium complex (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 38(2): 75-104.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Rhamphobrachium Ehlers, 1887. 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:129407