Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Family Chaetopteridae > Genus Mesochaetopterus

Mesochaetopterus minutus Potts, 1914

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesochaetopterus*	Potts, 1914	accepted genus name
*Ranzania*	Claparède, 1870	junior homonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: スナタバムシ

Literature

original description	Potts, Frank A. (1914). Polychaeta from the N.E. Pacific: The Chaetopteridae. With an account of the phenomenon of asexual reproduction in Phyllochaetopterus and the description of two new species of Chaetopteridae from the Atlantic. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 84(4): 955-994, plates I-VI.
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	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	Nishi, Eijiroh; Hickman Jr., Cleveland P.; Bailey-Brock, Julie H. (2009). Chaetopterus and Mesochaetopterus (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae) from the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of four new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 158(1): 239-259.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Mesochaetopterus minutus Potts, 1914. 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:129915