Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Phyllodocida incertae sedis > Family Sphaerodoridae > Genus Sphaerodoridium

Sphaerodoridium minutum (Webster & Benedict, 1887)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sphaerodoridium*	Lützen, 1961	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Ephesia minuta*	Webster & Benedict, 1887	synonym
*Sphaerodoropsis minuta*	(Webster & Benedict, 1887)	synonym

Literature

additional source	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.
redescription	Capa, María; Osborn, Karen J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2016). Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) of the deep Northwestern Atlantic, including remarkable new species of Euritmia and Sphaerephesia. ZooKeys. 615: 1-32.
new combination reference	Lützen, Jörgen. (1961). Sur une nouvelle espèce de polychète Sphaerodoridium commensalis n. gen., n. spec. (Polychaeta Errantia, famille des Sphaerodoridae) vivant en commensal de Terebellides stroemi Sars. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 2(4): 409-416.
status source	Capa, Maria; Aguado, M. Teresa; Bakken, Torkild. (2016). Phylogenetic hypothesis of Sphaerodoridae Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida) and its position within Phyllodocida. Cladistics. 32: 13–30 [August 2016, online before print 12 September 2015].

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sphaerodoridium minutum (Webster & Benedict, 1887). 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:155127