Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Scolecida > Family Maldanidae > Subfamily Euclymeninae > Tribe Leiochonini

Clymenura Verrill, 1900

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clymenura (Cephalata)*	Imajima & Shiraki, 1982	generic synonym

Children

Clymenura borealis (Arwidsson, 1906)
Clymenura lankesteri (McIntosh, 1885)
Clymenura polaris (Théel, 1879)

Literature

original description	Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671.
basis of record	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
status source	Read, Geoffrey B. (2011). A new Clymenura (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the intertidal of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, with a reassessment of Leiochone Grube, 1868 and Clymenura Verrill, 1900. Zootaxa. 2934: 39-52.
status source	Imajima, M.; Shiraki, Y. (1982). Maldanidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Japan. Part 1. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology). 8(1): 1-46.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Clymenura Verrill, 1900. 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:129346