Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Phyllodociformia > Family Phyllodocidae > Subfamily Phyllodocinae

Paranaitis Southern, 1914

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pareteone*	Hartmann-Schröder, 1975	generic synonym
*Anaitis*	Malmgren, 1865	junior homonym

Children

Paranaitis abyssalis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1975)
Paranaitis kosteriensis (Malmgren, 1867)
Paranaitis uschakovi Eibye-Jacobsen, 1991
Paranaitis wahlbergi (Malmgren, 1865)

Literature

original description	Southern, R. (1914). Clare Island Survey. Archiannelida and Polychaeta. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 31(47): 1-160.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	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.
taxonomy source	Kato, Tetsuya; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2003). A revision of Paranaitis Southern, 1914 (Polychaeta: Phyllodocidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 138(4): 379-429.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Paranaitis Southern, 1914. 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:129453