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

Malmgrenia lunulata (Delle Chiaje, 1830)

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 lunulata*	(Delle Chiaje, 1830)	synonym
*Malmgreniella lunulata*	(Delle Chiaje, 1830)	synonym
*Polynoe lunulata*	Delle Chiaje, 1830	synonym

Children

Harmothoe lunulata nigra Alaejos y Sanz, 1905

Literature

additional source	de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
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.
source of synonymy	Pettibone, Marian H. (1953). Some scale-bearing polychaetes of Puget Sound and adjacent waters. [book]. Seattle, University of Washington Press. 89 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 lunulata (Delle Chiaje, 1830). 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:155194