Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Cirratuliformia > Family Sternaspidae

Sternaspis Otto, 1820

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Sternaspis fossor Stimpson, 1853
Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウミダルマ属

Literature

original description	Otto, Adolfus Guilielmus. (1820). De Sternaspide thalassemoideo et Siphostomate diplochaito vermibus duobus marinis. [Epistola Gratulatoria quam ad celebrandum diem laetissimum VI Marti MDCCCXX (etc, etc)]. Vratislaviae. pp.16, 2 plates.
additional source	Vejdovsky, F. 1882. Untersuchungen über die Anatomie, Physiologie und Entwicklung von Sternaspis. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe 43(2): 33-90, Plates l–10.
additional source	Otto, A. G. (1821). Animalium maritimorum nondum editorum genera duo. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. 10(2): 617-634, Plates 50-51.
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.
additional source	Otto, A.G. (1821). Conspectus animalium quorundam maritimorum nondum editorum pars prior quam patri dilectissimo ad cineres usque venerando Bernhardo Crristiano Otto pro celebrando die laetissimo XI. [A survey of certain marine animals, not yet published, before the ashes of my beloved father, Bernhard Cristianus Otto, for celebrating the happiest day of the 11th.]. Maji MDCCCXXI quo ante decem lustra honores doctorales acceperat. Typis Universitatis, Vratislavia. 20 pp.
taxonomy source	Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio; Buzhinskaja, Galina. 2013. Six new deep-water sternaspid species (Annelida, Sternaspidae) from the Pacific Ocean. ZooKeys 348(0): 1-27
taxonomy source	Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Three new polar species of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae). Zootaxa. 3861(4): 333-344.
taxonomy source	Sendall, Kelly; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio. 2013. Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286(0): 1-74