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

Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Malmgrenia*	McIntosh, 1874	accepted genus name
*Parmenis*	Malmgren, 1867	generic synonym

Species group names

*Harmothoe castanea*	(McIntosh, 1876)	synonym
*Malmgreniella castanea*	(McIntosh, 1876)	synonym

Literature

original description	McIntosh, W. C. (1876). On British Annelida. Part I. Euphrosynidae, Amphinomidae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetiidae, and Sigalionidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 9(7): 371-394.
basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
source of synonymy	Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 538: 1-92.
source of synonymy	Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834.
source of synonymy	Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.
status source	Jourde, Jérôme.; Sampaio, Leandro; Barnich, Ruth; Bonifácio, Paulo; Labrune, Céline; Quintino, Victor; Sauriau, Pierre-Guy. (2015). Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov., a new scale worm species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from southern Europe with a key to European Malmgrenia species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(5): 947-952.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152357