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

Notomastus M. Sars, 1851

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paraleiocapitella*	Thomassin, 1970	generic synonym
*Notomastus (Clistomastus)*	Eisig, 1887	synonym
*Notomastus (Tremomastus)*	Eisig, 1887	synonym

Children

Notomastus aberans Day, 1957
Notomastus agassizii McIntosh, 1885
Notomastus exsertilis Saint-Joseph, 1906
Notomastus formianus Eisig, 1887
Notomastus latericeus Sars, 1851
Notomastus lineatus Claparède, 1869
Notomastus mossambicus (Thomassin, 1970)
Notomastus profundus Eisig, 1887

Literature

original description	Sars M. (1851). Beretning om i Sommeren 1849 Fortagen Zoologisk Reise i Lofoten og Finmarken. Nyt Magazin Naturvidenskaberne. 6(2):121–211.
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	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
taxonomy source	García-Garza, María Elena; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Tovar-Hernández, María Ana. (2019). Catalogue of Notomastus M. Sars, 1851 (Annelida, Capitellidae) and the description of a new species from the Gulf of California. Zootaxa. 4577(2): 249-.
identification resource	García-Garza, María Elena; de León-González, Jesús Angel. (2015). The genus Notomastus (Polychaeta: Capitellidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico, with the description of three new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 128(2): 176-189.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Notomastus M. Sars, 1851. 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:129220