MSBIAS taxon details
Myzostoma Leuckart, 1836
129364 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129364)
accepted
Genus
Myzostoma cirriferum Leuckart, 1836 (type by monotypy)
Myzostomum Leuckart, 1827 · unaccepted (nomen nudum in 1827)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
neuter
Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1836). Beziehung auf den Haarstern (Comatula) und Penacrinus europeaus, so wie auf der Schmarotzerthier auf Comatula. <em>Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur-und Heilkunde, gesammelt und mitgetheilt von Dr. L. G. V. Froriep.</em> 50(9, no. 1087): 129-131. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Myzostoma Leuckart, 1836. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129364 on 2026-07-17
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Myzostoma Leuckart, 1836. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129364 on 2026-07-17
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Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1836). Beziehung auf den Haarstern (Comatula) und Penacrinus europeaus, so wie auf der Schmarotzerthier auf Comatula. <em>Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur-und Heilkunde, gesammelt und mitgetheilt von Dr. L. G. V. Froriep.</em> 50(9, no. 1087): 129-131. [details]
original description (of Myzostomum Leuckart, 1827) Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1827). Versuch einer naturgemässen Eintheilung der Helminthen nebst dem Entwurfe einer Verwandschafts- und Stufenfolge der Thiere überhaupt. 90 pp. Heidelberg und Leipzig, Neue Akademische Buchhandlung von Karl Gross., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Ww4AAAAAQAAJ
page(s): 24; note: appears to be a nomen nudum [details]
taxonomy source Graff, Ludwig von. (1877). Das Genus Myzostoma (F.S. Leuckart). 1-82. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:oxfaleph012857796
note: Monograph [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source Grygier, Mark J. 1992. Hong Kong Myzostomida and their Indo-Pacific distributions, in B. Morton ed., The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 11-29 April 1989: Hong Kong, Hong Kong University press, p. 131-147.
page(s): 132; note: comments on genus publication date [details]
original description (of Myzostomum Leuckart, 1827) Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1827). Versuch einer naturgemässen Eintheilung der Helminthen nebst dem Entwurfe einer Verwandschafts- und Stufenfolge der Thiere überhaupt. 90 pp. Heidelberg und Leipzig, Neue Akademische Buchhandlung von Karl Gross., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Ww4AAAAAQAAJ
page(s): 24; note: appears to be a nomen nudum [details]
taxonomy source Graff, Ludwig von. (1877). Das Genus Myzostoma (F.S. Leuckart). 1-82. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:oxfaleph012857796
note: Monograph [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source Grygier, Mark J. 1992. Hong Kong Myzostomida and their Indo-Pacific distributions, in B. Morton ed., The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 11-29 April 1989: Hong Kong, Hong Kong University press, p. 131-147.
page(s): 132; note: comments on genus publication date [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Myzostoma)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091279)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091279)
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