Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Maldanidae > Subfamily Euclymeninae > Tribe Leiochonini > Genus Leiochone

Leiochone tenuis Day, 1957

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leiochone*	Grube, 1868	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Clymenura tenuis*	(Day, 1957)	synonym

Literature

original description	Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 14(1): 59-129.
basis of record	MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds). (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
source of synonymy	Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leiochone tenuis Day, 1957. 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:221094