Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Sigalionidae > Subfamily Pholoinae > Genus Pholoe

Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pholoe*	Johnston, 1839	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Palmyra ocellata*	Johnston, 1827	subjective synonym
*Pholoe eximia*	Johnston, 1865	subjective synonym

Children

Pholoe minuta tecta (Stimpson, 1853)

Literature

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additional source	Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part one of three]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(1): 51-110, plates VIII-XV.
redescription	Meißner, Karin; Bick, Andreas; Götting, Miriam. (2016). Arctic Pholoe (Polychaeta: Pholoidae): when integrative taxonomy helps to sort out barcodes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(2): 237-262.
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Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780). 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:130603