Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Phyllodocida incertae sedis > Family Tomopteridae > Genus Tomopteris

Tomopteris septentrionalis Steenstrup, 1849

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tomopteris*	Eschscholtz, 1825	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Tomopteris eschscholtzii*	Greeff, 1879	subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オナシオヨギゴカイ

Literature

original description	Steenstrup, J. (1850). Af Slaegten Tomopteris. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn. 1850: 75-77.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
additional source	Støp-Bowitz, Carl 1948. Polychaeta from the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic deep-sea expedition 1910. Report on the Scientific Results of the Michael Sars North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition, 5(8): 1-91.
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	Sicinski J. 2008. Admiralty Bay Benthos Diversity Data Base (ABBED). Polychaeta. (http://www.scarmarbin.be)
additional source	Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Dewarumez, Jean-Marie
redescription	Suarez-Morales, Eduardo; Jimenez-Cueto, Soledad; and Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. 2005. Catalogo de los Poliquetos Pelagicos (Polychaeta) del Golfo de Mexico y Mar Caribe Mexicano. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Chetumal: 1-99
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.
taxonomy source	Kolbasova, Glafira; Syomin, Vitaly; Mishin, Alexey; Molodtsova, Tina; Neretin, Nikolai; Neretina, Tatiana. (2023). Holopelagic Annelida from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and adjacent South Atlantic with descriptions of three new species. Marine Biodiversity. 53(6): 1-42.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Tomopteris septentrionalis Steenstrup, 1849. 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:131568