Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Eunicida > Family Onuphidae > Subfamily Onuphinae > Genus Rhamphobrachium > Subgenus Rhamphobrachium (Spinigerium)

Rhamphobrachium (Spinigerium) brevibrachiatum (Ehlers, 1874)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rhamphobrachium*	Ehlers, 1887	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Rhamphobrachium brevibranchiatum*	[auctorum]	orthographic variant
*Diopatra brevibrachiata*	Ehlers, 1874	synonym
*Rhamphobrachium brevibrachiatum*	(Ehlers, 1874)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: エラクマデイソメ

Literature

additional source	Imajima, Minoru. (2003). 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 (II). Orders included within the Phyllodocida, Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida. National Science Museum Monographs. 23: 1-221.
additional source	Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Paxton, Hannelore; Gillet, Patrick. (2004). Longibrachium falcigerum, a new species of Onuphidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Seamount 2 Expedition, North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 84(1):59-62.
redescription	Imajima, Minoru. (1999). Onuphidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Japan, excluding the genus Onuphis. National Science Museum Monographs. 16: 1-115.
new combination reference	Paxton, Hannelore. (1986). Revision of the Rhamphobrachium complex (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 38(2): 75-104.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Rhamphobrachium (Spinigerium) brevibrachiatum (Ehlers, 1874). 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:334695