Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Hesionidae > Subfamily Psamathinae

Psamathe Johnston, 1836

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Kefersteinia Quatrefages, 1866 generic synonym
Psammate [auctt. misspelling] synonym

Children

Psamathe cirrhata Keferstein, 1862
Psamathe fusca Johnston, 1836

Literature

original description

Johnston, George. 1836. Art. IV. Illustrations in British Zoology. Cl. Annelides, Ord. Errantes, Fam Nereides. Genus Psa'mathe. Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology [conducted by J. C. Loudon] 9: 14-17

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.

status source

Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta. 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Psamathe Johnston, 1836. 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:152248

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2020-06-09 by Geoffrey Read

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