Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Amphinomida > Family Euphrosinidae

Euphrosine Lamarck, 1818

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Euphrosyna*	[auct. lapsus]	orthographic variant
*Euphrosyne*	[auct.]	orthographic variant

Children

Euphrosine armadillo M. Sars, 1851
Euphrosine borealis Örsted, 1842
Euphrosine cirrata Sars, 1862
Euphrosine cirrataepropinqua Amoureux, 1982
Euphrosine foliosa Audouin & H Milne Edwards, 1833
Euphrosine myrtosa Lamarck, 1818

Literature

original description	Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière.
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	Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. 463 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.
subsequent type designation	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Euphrosine Lamarck, 1818. 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:129285