Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Phyllodociformia > Family Lopadorrhynchidae > Genus Maupasia

Maupasia coeca Viguier, 1886

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Maupasia*	Viguier, 1886	accepted genus name
*Haliplanes*	[genus misspelling]	orthographic variant

Species group names

*Maupasia caeca*	Viguier, 1886	orthographic variant

Literature

original description	Viguier, C. (1886). Etudes sur les Animaux inferieurs de la Baie d'Alger. Recherches sur les Annelides pelagiques. Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale. 4: 347-442, plates 21-27.
additional source	Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d'Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 44(1): 67-95.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Dales, Rodney Phillips; Peter, George. (1972). A synopsis of the pelagic Polychaeta. Journal of Natural History. 6(1): 55-92.
taxonomy source	Kolbasova, Glafira; Syomin, Vitaly; Mishin, Alexey; Molodtsova, Tina; Neretin, Nikolai; Neretina, Tatiana. (2023). Holopelagic Annelida from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and adjacent South Atlantic with descriptions of three new species. Marine Biodiversity. 53(6): 1-42.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Maupasia coeca Viguier, 1886. 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:155417