Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Spionida > Suborder Spioniformia > Family Spionidae > Genus Malacoceros

Malacoceros tetracerus (Schmarda, 1861)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Malacoceros*	Quatrefages, 1843	accepted genus name
*Colobranchus*	Schmarda, 1861	generic synonym

Species group names

*Colobranchus ciliatus*	Keferstein, 1862	subjective synonym
*Euspio gravieri*	McIntosh, 1915	subjective synonym
*Malacoceros tetraceros*	[auctt.]	orthographic variant
*Colobranchus tetracerus*	Schmarda, 1861	synonym
*Malacoceros ciliatus*	(Keferstein, 1862)	synonym
*Scolelepis ciliata*	(Keferstein, 1862)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.
status source	Sikorski, Andrew V. 1994. [Malacoceros (Polychaeta, Spionidae) in the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(5): 21-35

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Malacoceros tetracerus (Schmarda, 1861). 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:333954