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

Scolelepis Blainville, 1828

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nerine*	Johnston, 1838	generic synonym
*Nerinides*	Mesnil, 1896	generic synonym
*Pseudomalacoceros*	Czerniavsky, 1881	generic synonym
*Scolecolepis*	Malmgren, 1867	orthographic variant
*Scolepis*	[auctt.]	orthographic variant
*Asetocalamyzas*	Tzetlin, 1985	synonym
*Aonis*	sensu Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 [Not Savigny, 1822]	misapplied name

Children

Nerine beata Williams, 1859
Nerine marcella Williams, 1851
Scolelepis (Parascolelepis) Maciolek, 1987
Scolelepis (Scolelepis) Blainville, 1828
Scolelepis bonnieri (Mesnil, 1896)
Scolelepis korsuni Sikorski, 1994
Scolelepis laonicola (Tzetlin, 1985)
Scolelepis longirostris (Quatrefages, 1843)
Scolelepis mesnili (Bellan & Lagardère, 1971)
Scolelepis tridentata (Southern, 1914)
Scolelepis vulgaris (Johnston, 1827)

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes [entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
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	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
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.
identification resource	Delgado-Blas, Víctor Hugo. (2006). Partial revision of Scolelepis (Polychaeta : Spionidae) from the Grand Caribbean Region, with the description of two new species and a key to species recorded in the area. Contributions to Zoology. 75(1-2): 75-97.
identification resource	Zhou, J.; Ji, W.; Li, X. 2009. A new species of Scolelepis (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from sandy beaches in China, with a review of Chinese Scolelepis species. Zootaxa 2236: 37–49

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Scolelepis Blainville, 1828. 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:129623