Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Phyllodocida incertae sedis > Family Sphaerodoridae

Sphaerodoridium Lützen, 1961

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Sphaerodoridium balticum (Reimers, 1933)
Sphaerodoridium claparedii (Greeff, 1866)
Sphaerodoridium longiparapodium Katzmann, 1973
Sphaerodoridium minutum (Webster & Benedict, 1887)

Literature

original description	Lützen, Jörgen. (1961). Sur une nouvelle espèce de polychète Sphaerodoridium commensalis n. gen., n. spec. (Polychaeta Errantia, famille des Sphaerodoridae) vivant en commensal de Terebellides stroemi Sars. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 2(4): 409-416.
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
identification resource	Moreira, Juan; Parapar, Julio. (2015). A new species of Sphaerodoridium Lützen, 1961 from Iceland (Polychaeta: Sphaerodoridae). Zootaxa. 3911(1): 91-105.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sphaerodoridium Lützen, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129600