Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Spionida > Suborder Spioniformia > Family Spionidae > Genus Scolelepis

Scolelepis vulgaris (Johnston, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scolelepis*	Blainville, 1828	accepted genus name
*Nerine*	Johnston, 1838	generic synonym
*Nerinides*	Mesnil, 1896	generic synonym
*Pseudomalacoceros*	Czerniavsky, 1881	generic synonym
*Scolecolepis*	Malmgren, 1867	orthographic variant
*Scolepis*	[auctt.]	orthographic variant
*Asetocalamyzas*	Tzetlin, 1985	synonym
*Aonis*	sensu Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 [Not Savigny, 1822]	misapplied name

Species group names

*Nereis aries*	Dalyell, 1853	subjective synonym

Literature

basis of record	McIntosh, William Carmichel. (1915). Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids. The Ray Society, London, 3 (1): i-viii, 1-368 (text).
source of synonymy	Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Scolelepis vulgaris (Johnston, 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:334752