Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Polynoidae > Subfamily Macellicephalinae > Tribe Macellicephalini > Genus Macellicephala

Macellicephala violacea (Levinsen, 1886)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Macellicephala*	McIntosh, 1885	accepted genus name
*Oligolepis*	Levinsen, 1886	junior homonym

Species group names

*Oligolepis violacea*	Levinsen, 1886	synonym

Literature

additional source	Wirén, Axel. (1901). [Talk title] Über die während der schwedischen arktischen Expedition von 1898 und 1900 eingesammelten Anneliden [meeting report precis not written by Wiren]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 24: 253-253.
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	Wiren, Axel. (1907). Macellicephala violacea (Lev.) nebst Bemerkungen über deren Anatomie. [edited book]. p. 289-308 In: Zoologiska studier tillägnade professor T. Tullberg på hans 65-års dag. Med understöd af enskilda den svenska naturforskningens främjare utgifna af Naturvetenskapliga studentsällskapets i Uppsala. Zoologiska sektion. Almquist & Wicksells (342 pages).
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Macellicephala violacea (Levinsen, 1886). 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:130808