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

Lepidasthenia izukai Imajima & Hartman, 1964

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lepidasthenia*	Malmgren, 1867	accepted genus name
*Nectochaeta*	Marenzeller, 1892	synonym

Species group names

*Polynoe longissima*	Izuka, 1912	junior homonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ナガウロコムシ

Literature

original description	Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts].
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
redescription	Imajima, Minoru. (1997). Polychaetous annelids from Sagami Bay and Sagami Sea collected by the Emperor Showa of Japan and deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo. Families Polynoidae and Acoetidae. National Science Museum Monographs. 13: 1-131.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lepidasthenia izukai Imajima & Hartman, 1964. 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:328745