Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Hesionidae > Subfamily Psamathinae > Genus Psamathe

Psamathe cirrhata Keferstein, 1862

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Psamathe*	Johnston, 1836	accepted genus name
*Kefersteinia*	Quatrefages, 1866	generic synonym
*Psammate*	[auctt. misspelling]	synonym

Species group names

*Kefersteinia cirrhata*	(Keferstein, 1862)	synonym

Children

Kefersteinia cirrhata hibernica (Southern, 1914)

Literature

original description	Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11.
source of synonymy	Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta. 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables.
redescription	Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 1-120, 18 plates.
status source	Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2022). New species of hesionid and phyllodocid polychaetes (Annelida, Errantia) from Clipperton Island. Zoosystema. 44(1): 1-26.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Psamathe cirrhata Keferstein, 1862. 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:336123