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

Leiochone Grube, 1868

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leiochone johnstoni McIntosh, 1915
Leiochone leiopygos (Grube, 1860)
Leiochone tenuis Day, 1957

Literature

original description

Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1868). Über die Familie der Maldanien. Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur. 45: 52-58.

basis of record

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

Arwidsson, Ivar. (1906). Studien über die skandinavischen und arktischen Maldaniden nebst Zusammenstellung der übrigen bisher bekannten Arten dieser Familie. Inaugural-Dissertation zur erlangung der Doktorwürde. Der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultät zu Upsala, Upsala Universitet, Upsala [sic]. 1-308. Plates 1-12. [published 1906 or at latest 2 Feb 1907].

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leiochone Grube, 1868. 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:146991

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2011-06-21 by Geoffrey Read

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