Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Nereididae > Subfamily Nereidinae > Genus Perinereis

Perinereis nuntia (Lamarck, 1818)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Perinereis*	Kinberg, 1865	accepted genus name
*Lipephile*	Malmgren, 1867	generic synonym
*Nereis (Lipephile)*	Malmgren, 1867	generic synonym

Species group names

*Lycoris nuntia*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: イソゴカイ

Literature

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	Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. Mediterranean Marine Science. 6 (2): 63-118.
additional source	Wilson, Robin S.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1993). A revision of the Perinereis nuntia species group (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Records of the Australian Museum. 45(3): 253-277.
additional source	Fauvel, Pierre. (1927). Rapport sur les Annélides Polychètes Errantes [Zoological results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Channel, 1924]. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 22(4): 411-439.
additional source	Glasby, C.J.; Hsieh, H.-L. (2006). New species and new records of the Perinereis nuntia species group (Nereididae: Polychaeta) from Taiwan and other Indo-West Pacific shores. Zoological Studies. 45(4): 553-577.
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	Zenetos, A., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493.
redescription	Bakken, Torkild; Wilson, Robin S. (2005). Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta. 34(5): 507-547.
redescription	Villalobos-Guerrero, T. F. (2019). Redescription of two overlooked species of the Perinereis nuntia complex and morphological delimitation of P. nuntia (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818) from the Red Sea (Annelida, Nereididae). Zoosystema. 41(1): 465.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Perinereis nuntia (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:130411