Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > 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	heterotypic 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: pp. 214-231
additional source	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta
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., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	ITIS database
status source	Imajima, Minoru and Shiraki, Yuri 1982. Maldanidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Japan. Part 1. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Ser. A (Zoology), 8(1): 1-46.
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.

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Citation

Read, G. (2014). Clymenura Verrill, 1900. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129346