Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Eunicida > Family Onuphidae > Subfamily Onuphinae

Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Epidiopatra*	Augener, 1918	heterotypic synonym

Children

Diopatra hupferiana (Augener, 1918)
Diopatra madeirensis Langerhans, 1880
Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841

Literature

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	Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp.
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
source of synonymy	Budaeva, Nataliya; Fauchald, Kristian 2011. Phylogeny of the Diopatra generic complex with a revision of Paradiopatra Ehlres [sic], 1887 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2): 319-436

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Citation

Paxton, H. (2014). Diopatra. 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:129398