Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Superclass Annelida incertae sedis > Order Myzostomida > Family Myzostomatidae > Genus Myzostoma

Myzostoma cirriferum Leuckart, 1836

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Myzostoma*	Leuckart, 1836	accepted genus name
*Myzostomum*	Leuckart, 1827	synonym

Species group names

*Myzostomum cirriferum*	Leuckart, 1836	synonym

Literature

original description	Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1836). Beziehung auf den Haarstern (Comatula) und Penacrinus europeaus, so wie auf der Schmarotzerthier auf Comatula. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur-und Heilkunde, gesammelt und mitgetheilt von Dr. L. G. V. Froriep. 50(9, no. 1087): 129-131.
additional source	Schultze, Max. (1854). Bericht über einige im Herbst 1853 an der Küste des Mittelmeeres angestellte zootomische Untersuchungen [Report on some zootomic investigations in the autumn of 1853 on the coast of the Mediterranean]. Verhandlungen der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Gesellschaft in Würzburg. 4: 222-230.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Myzostoma cirriferum Leuckart, 1836. 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:130336