Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Polychaeta incertae sedis > Family Psammodrilidae

Psammodrilus Swedmark, 1952

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Psammodriloides*	Swedmark, 1958	generic synonym

Children

Psammodrilus balanoglossoides Swedmark, 1952
Psammodrilus fauveli (Swedmark, 1958)

Literature

original description	Swedmark, Bertil. (1952). Note préliminaire sur un polychète sédentaire aberrant, Psammodrilus balanoglossoides, n.gen., n.sp. Arkiv för Zoologi. 4(8): 159-162.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
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	Worsaae, Katrine; Giribet, Gonzalo; Martínez, Alejandro. (2018). The role of progenesis in the diversification of the interstitial annelid lineage Psammodrilidae. Invertebrate Systematics. 32(4): 774-793.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Psammodrilus Swedmark, 1952. 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:129516