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

Malmgrenia McIntosh, 1874

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

note: according to Hartmann-Schröder (1996) Malmgreniella is belonging to subfamily Arctonoinae Hanley, 1989; but validity of the subfamily questioned by Barnich & Fiege (2001)

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Parmenis*	Malmgren, 1867	generic synonym

Children

Malmgrenia andreapolis McIntosh, 1874
Malmgrenia arenicolae (Saint-Joseph, 1888)
Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876
Malmgrenia darbouxi (Pettibone, 1993)
Malmgrenia lilianae (Pettibone, 1993)
Malmgrenia ljungmani (Malmgren, 1867)
Malmgrenia lunulata (Delle Chiaje, 1830)
Malmgrenia marphysae (McIntosh, 1876)
Malmgrenia mcintoshi (Tebble & Chambers, 1982)
Malmgrenia polypapillata (Barnich & Fiege, 2001)

Literature

original description	McIntosh, W.C. (1874). On the Annelida of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13 (4th series) issue 76 part 34: 261-270.
additional source	Muir, Alexander I.; Chambers, S. J. 2008. Case 3417. Malmgrenia McIntosh, 1874 (Annelida, Polychaeta, POLYNOIDAE): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Malmgrenia andreapolis McIntosh, 1874 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(1): 12-16
additional source	Hanley, J. Russell. (1987). Taxonomic status of some species formerly referred to Malmgrenia Macintosh 1874, with the description of a new genus Lobopelma (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 4(1): 147-163.
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	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.
source of synonymy	Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 538: 1-92.
source of synonymy	Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2001). The Mediterranean species of Malmgreniella Hartman, 1967 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Polynoinae), including the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History. 35(8): 1119-1142.
redescription	Barnich, Ruth; Dietrich, Anna; Hager, Tatjana; Fiege, Dieter. (2017). On the genera Malmgrenia McIntosh, 1874 and Pettibonesia Nemésio, 2006 in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, with descriptions of two new species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Marine Biodiversity. [efirst, 12 pages].
status source	ICZN. (2009). Opinion 2233 (Case 3417): Malmgrenia McIntosh, 1874 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Polynoidae): usage conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 66(4): 360-361.
identification resource	Jourde, Jérôme.; Sampaio, Leandro; Barnich, Ruth; Bonifácio, Paulo; Labrune, Céline; Quintino, Victor; Sauriau, Pierre-Guy. (2015). Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov., a new scale worm species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from southern Europe with a key to European Malmgrenia species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(5): 947-952.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Malmgrenia McIntosh, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147006