Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Paraonidae > Genus Paradoneis

Paradoneis lyra (Southern, 1914)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paradoneis*	Hartman, 1965	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Paraonides lyra*	[auctt.]	synonym
*Paraonis (Paraonides) lyra*	Southern, 1914	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フタエダヒメエラゴカイ

Literature

additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
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	Dauvin, J.C. and Cabioch, L. 1988. New species for the list of marine fauna from Roscoff: Amphipod (Siphonoecetes striatus ) and polychaete Paraonidae, and spatial distribution of Echinocardium pennatifidum . Nouvelles especes pour l'inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff-crustaces amphipodes: Siphonoecetes striatus Myers et McGrath et annelides polychetes Paraonidae et nouvelles donnees sur la repartition du spatangide Echinocardium pennatifidum Norman. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 29(2): 215-219.
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.
redescription	Mackie, A. S. Y. (1991). Paradoneis eliasoni sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Paraonidae) from northern european waters, with a redescription of Paradoneis lyra (Southern, 1914). Ophelia, supplement 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta). 147-155.
taxonomy source	Hartman, O. (1965). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 28: 1-384.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Paradoneis lyra (Southern, 1914). 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:130585