Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Polynoidae > Subfamily Polynoinae

Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Evarne*	Malmgren, 1865	junior homonym
*Harmothoe (Harmothoe)*	Kinberg, 1856	synonym
*Laenilla*	Malmgren, 1865	synonym
*Lagisca taurica*	(Czerniavsky, 1882)	synonym

Children

Harmothoe (Austrolaenilla)
Harmothoe abyssicola Bidenkap, 1895
Harmothoe aequespina (Langerhans, 1884)
Harmothoe alba (Malmgren, 1866)
Harmothoe anoculata Hartmann-Schröder, 1975
Harmothoe antilopes McIntosh, 1876
Harmothoe areolata (Grube, 1860)
Harmothoe aspera (Hansen, 1878)
Harmothoe bellani Barnich & Fiege, 2000
Harmothoe borealis (Théel, 1879)
Harmothoe casabullicola Brito, Nuñez & Bacallado, 1991
Harmothoe clavigera (M. Sars, 1863)
Harmothoe coeliaca de Saint-Joseph, 1888
Harmothoe crosetensis (McIntosh, 1885)
Harmothoe evei Kirkegaard, 1980
Harmothoe extenuata (Grube, 1840)
Harmothoe fragilis Moore, 1910
Harmothoe fraserthomsoni McIntosh, 1897
Harmothoe gilchristi Day, 1960
Harmothoe glabra (Malmgren, 1865)
Harmothoe globifera (Sars G.O., 1873)
Harmothoe haliaeti McIntosh, 1876
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe impar (Johnston, 1839)
Harmothoe ingolfiana Ditlevsen, 1917
Harmothoe johnstoni (McIntosh, 1876)
Harmothoe joubini Fauvel, 1913
Harmothoe longisetis (Grube, 1863)
Harmothoe micraspis Eliason, 1962
Harmothoe minuta (Potts, 1910)
Harmothoe oculinarum (Storm, 1879)
Harmothoe pagenstecheri Michaelsen, 1896
Harmothoe pokoui Intes & Le Loeuff, 1975
Harmothoe rarispina (M. Sars, 1861)
Harmothoe reticulata (Claparède, 1870)
Harmothoe serrata Day, 1963
Harmothoe spinifera (Ehlers, 1864)
Harmothoe talismani Roule, 1898
Harmothoe tenuisetis (McIntosh, 1885)
Harmothoe villosa Treadwell, 1926
Harmothoe viridis Loshamn, 1981
Laenilla alba Malmgren, 1865

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: fifteen-scaled worms sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Schuppenwürmer

Literature

original description	Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856].
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	Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
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	Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2000). Revision of the Mediterranean species of Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856 and Lagisca Malmgren, 1865 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Polynoinae) with descriptions of a new genus and a new species. Journal of Natural History. 34(10): 1889-1938.
additional source	Barnich, R.; Fiege, D.; Micaletto, G.; Gambi, M. C. (2006). Redescription of Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) and related species from Subantarctic and Antarctic waters, with the erection of a new genus. Journal of Natural History. 40(1-2): 33-75.
identification resource	Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2009). Revision of the genus Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) in the Northeast Atlantic. Zootaxa. 2104(1): 1-76.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856. 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:129491