Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Cirratuliformia > Family Cirratulidae

Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Monticellina Laubier, 1961 junior homonym

Children

Kirkegaardia dorsobranchialis (Kirkegaard, 1959)
Kirkegaardia heterochaeta (Laubier, 1961)
Kirkegaardia serrata (Eliason, 1962)
Kirkegaardia tesselata (Hartman, 1960)

Literature

original description

Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. Zootaxa. 4166(1): 1-93.

taxonomy source

Freitas, Roberta; Ribeiro, Rannyele Passos; Ruta, Christine. (2022). Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016 (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from Southeastern Brazil with description of nine new species. PLOS ONE. 17(5): e0265336, 1-27.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016. 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:884676

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2019-12-26 by Geoffrey Read

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