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

Acholoe squamosa (Delle Chiaje, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acholoe*	Claparède, 1870	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Acholoe astericola*	(Delle Chiaje, 1841)	synonym
*Nereis squamosa*	Delle Chiaje, 1827	synonym
*Polynoe astericola*	Delle Chiaje, 1841	synonym

Literature

additional source	Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
additional source	Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2003). The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 559: 1-167.
additional source	Pettibone, Marian H. (1996). Revision of the scaleworm genera Acholoe Claparède, Arctonoella Buzhinskaja, and Intoshella Darboux (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) with the erection of the new subfamily Acholoinae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109(4): 629-644.
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.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1965). Catalogue of the polychaetous annelids of the world. Supplement 1960-1965 and index. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 23: 1-197.
ecology source	Freeman, S. M., Richardson, C. A. and Seed, R. 1998. The distribution and occurrence of Acholoë squamosa (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) a commensal with the burrowing starfish Astropecten irregularis (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 47: 107-118.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Acholoe squamosa (Delle Chiaje, 1827). 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:146474