Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Orbiniidae > Subfamily Orbiniinae

Leodamas Kinberg, 1866

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Haploscoloplos*	Monro, 1933	generic synonym
*Scoloplos (Leodamas)*	(Kinberg, 1866)	synonym

Children

Leodamas chevalieri (Fauvel, 1902)

Literature

original description	Kinberg, J. G. H. (1866). Annulata Nova. Continuatio. [various errantia & sedentaria]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(4): 239-258.
status source	Zhadan, Anna. (2020). Review of Orbiniidae (Annelida, Sedentaria) from Australia. Zootaxa. 4860(4): 451-502.
status source	Dean, Harlan K.; Blake, James A. (2015). The Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of Pacific Costa Rica. Zootaxa. 3956(2): 183-198.
status source	Blake, James A. (2000). A new genus and species of polychaete worm (Family Orbiniidae) from methane seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of the systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera of Orbiniidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 41(4): 435-450.
taxonomy source	Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. Zootaxa. 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph].
identification resource	Sun, Yue; Sui, Jixing; Li, Xinzheng. (2018). A new species of Leodamas Kinberg, 1866 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae) from the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 37(10): 130-135.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leodamas Kinberg, 1866. 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:325863