Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Polynoidae > Subfamily Polynoinae > Genus Harmothoe

Harmothoe impar (Johnston, 1839)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Harmothoe*	Kinberg, 1856	accepted genus name
*Evarne*	Malmgren, 1865	junior homonym
*Harmothoe (Harmothoe)*	Kinberg, 1856	synonym
*Laenilla*	Malmgren, 1865	synonym
*Lagisca taurica*	(Czerniavsky, 1882)	synonym

Species group names

*Harmothoe elisabethae*	(McIntosh, 1900)	synonym
*Lagisca elisabethae*	McIntosh, 1900	synonym
*Polynoe impar*	Johnston, 1839	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ミズタマウロコムシ

Literature

additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp.
source of synonymy	Hartman, Olga. (1965). Catalogue of the polychaetous annelids of the world. Supplement 1960-1965 and index. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 23: 1-197.
source of synonymy	Pettibone, Marian H. 1956. Marine polychaete worms from Labrador. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 105(3361): 531-584.
source of synonymy	Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris. 5: 1-488.
redescription	Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2009). Revision of the genus Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) in the Northeast Atlantic. Zootaxa. 2104(1): 1-76.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe impar (Johnston, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130770