Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Opheliidae > Subfamily Ophelininae > Genus Polyophthalmus

Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polyophthalmus*	Quatrefages, 1850	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Armandia robertianae*	McIntosh, 1908	subjective synonym
*Nais picta*	Dujardin, 1839	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

French: polyophthalme peint

Japanese: カスリオフェリア

Literature

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additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
additional source	Fauvel, P. 1925. Sur les Ophéliens des côtes de France. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 50: 77-88.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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	Augener, H. (1914). Polychaeta II: Sedentaria. pp. 1-72. In: Michaelsen, W. and Hartmeyer, R. (Eds.). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Volume 5. Gustav Fischer. Jena.
additional source	Jimi, Naoto, Fujiwara, Yoshihiro. (2016). [Reproductive swarming of Polyophthalmus pictus (Annelida: Opheliidae) observed at Okinawa Island and adjacent island, Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan] (In Japanese). Fauna Ryukyuana. 28: 29–35.
additional source	Fauvel, P. 1907. Première note préliminaire sur les Polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice ou déposées dans le Musée Océanographique de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institute océanographique, 107: 1-34.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1956). Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 109(2): 239-310.
additional source	Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1898). Annélides polychètes des côtes de France (Manche et Océan). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie et Paléontologie, Paris. Série 8, 5: 209-464, plates XIII-XXIII.
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.
additional source	Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris. 1-494.
additional source	Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII.
new combination reference	Quatrefages, Armand de 1850. Études sur les types inferieurs de l'embranchement des Annelés. Mémoire sur la famille des Polyphthalmiens (Polyphthalmea Nob.). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Science, Paris 30: 813.
taxonomy source	Parapar, Julio, Al-Kandari, Manal, Candás, María, Moreira, Juan. (2021). A new species of Polyophthalmus (Annelida, Opheliidae) from the Arabian Gulf, with an insight on internal anatomy and diversity of the genus. Zootaxa. 5052(4): 501-528.
ecology source	Tampi, P. R. S. 1958. Pelagic swarming of Polyophthalmus (Family Opheliidae - Polychaeta). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55(2): 371-374.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839). 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:130510