Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Maldanidae > Subfamily Nicomachinae > Genus Nicomache > Subgenus Nicomache (Loxochona)

Nicomache (Loxochona) quadrispinata Arwidsson, 1906

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nicomache*	Malmgren, 1865	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Nicomache quadrispinata*	Arwidsson, 1906	synonym; alternate representation

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヨツトゲタケフシゴカイ

Literature

original description	Arwidsson, Ivar. (1906). Studien über die skandinavischen und arktischen Maldaniden nebst Zusammenstellung der übrigen bisher bekannten Arten dieser Familie. Inaugural-Dissertation zur erlangung der Doktorwürde. Der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultät zu Upsala, Upsala Universitet, Upsala [sic]. 1-308. Plates 1-12. [published 1906 or at latest 2 Feb 1907].
additional source	Wesenberg-Lund, Elise. (1948). Maldanidae (Polychaeta) from west Greenland waters. Meddelelser om Grønland. 134(9): 1-58.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nicomache (Loxochona) quadrispinata Arwidsson, 1906. 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:334211