Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Spionida > Suborder Spioniformia > Family Spionidae

Dipolydora Verrill, 1881

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dipolydora armata (Langerhans, 1880)
Dipolydora caulleryi (Mesnil, 1897)
Dipolydora coeca (Örsted, 1843)
Dipolydora flava (Claparède, 1870)
Dipolydora giardi (Mesnil, 1893)
Dipolydora langerhansi (Mesnil, 1896)
Dipolydora quadrilobata (Jacobi, 1883)
Dipolydora saintjosephi (Eliason, 1920)
Dipolydora socialis (Schmarda, 1861)

Literature

original description	Verrill, A.E. (1881). New England Annelida. Part I. Historical sketch, with annotated lists of the species hitherto recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 4: 285-324.
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.
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	Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara
identification resource	Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Malyar, Vasily V.; Carlton, James T. (2023). Boring can get you far: shell-boring Dipolydora from Temperate Northern Pacific, with emphasis on the global history of Dipolydora giardi (Mesnil, 1893) (Annelida: Spionidae). Biological Invasions. 25:741–772.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Dipolydora Verrill, 1881. 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:129611