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Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

129398 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129398)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Eunicida (Order)
  7. Onuphidae (Family)
  8. Onuphinae (Subfamily)
  9. Diopatra (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Diopatra amboinensis Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (type by subsequent designation)
Onuphinae
Epidiopatra Augener, 1918 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

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  1. Species Diopatra aciculata Knox & Cameron, 1971
  2. Species Diopatra agave Grube, 1869
  3. Species Diopatra akarana Knox & Hicks, 1973
  4. Species Diopatra albimandibulata Paxton, 1993
  5. Species Diopatra amboinensis Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833
  6. Species Diopatra amoena Kinberg, 1865
  7. Species Diopatra angolensis Kirkegaard, 1988
  8. Species Diopatra ariasi Hektoen & Lavesque in Lavesque, Happi et al. 2025
  9. Species Diopatra baeri Grube, 1840
  10. Species Diopatra biscayensis Fauchald, Berke & Woodin, 2012
  11. Species Diopatra brasiliensis Kinberg, 1865
  12. Species Diopatra budaevae Paxton & Arias, 2017
  13. Species Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1866
  14. Species Diopatra claparedii Grube, 1878
  15. Species Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802)
  16. Species Diopatra dentata Kinberg, 1865
  17. Species Diopatra denticulata Fauchald, 1968
  18. Species Diopatra dexiognatha Paxton & Bailey-Brock, 1986
  19. Species Diopatra drewinensis (Augener, 1918)
  20. Species Diopatra dubia Day, 1960
  21. Species Diopatra farallonensis Fauchald, 1968
  22. Species Diopatra gallardoi Paxton, 2016
  23. Species Diopatra gesae Paxton, 1998
  24. Species Diopatra gigova Paxton, 1993
  25. Species Diopatra gilchristi (Day, 1960)
  26. Species Diopatra hanleyi Paxton, 1993
  27. Species Diopatra hannelorae Steiner & Amaral, in Seixas, Steiner, Solé-Cava, Amaral & Paiva, 2020
  28. Species Diopatra hektoeni Paxton & Arias, 2017
  29. Species Diopatra hupferiana (Augener, 1918)
  30. Species Diopatra italica Castelnau, 1842
  31. Species Diopatra khargiana Wesenberg-Lund, 1949
  32. Species Diopatra kristiani Paxton, 1998
  33. Species Diopatra leuckarti Kinberg, 1865
  34. Species Diopatra lilliputiana Paxton, 1993
  35. Species Diopatra longicornis Kinberg, 1865
  36. Species Diopatra longissima Grube, 1851
  37. Species Diopatra maculata Paxton, 1993
  38. Species Diopatra madeirensis Langerhans, 1880
  39. Species Diopatra malabarensis Quatrefages, 1866
  40. Species Diopatra mariae Paxton & Arias, 2017
  41. Species Diopatra marinae Steiner & Amaral, in Seixas, Steiner, Solé-Cava, Amaral & Paiva, 2020
  42. Species Diopatra marocensis Paxton, Fadlaoui & Lechapt, 1995
  43. Species Diopatra mellea Paxton & Arias, 2017
  44. Species Diopatra mexicana De Leon-Gonzalez, 1994
  45. Species Diopatra micrura Pires, Paxton, Quintino & Rodrigues, 2010
  46. Species Diopatra monroi Day, 1960
  47. Species Diopatra monroviensis Augener, 1918
  48. Species Diopatra musseraensis Augener, 1918
  49. Species Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841
  50. Species Diopatra neotridens Hartman, 1944
  51. Species Diopatra nishii Paxton, 2014
  52. Species Diopatra obliqua Hartman, 1944
  53. Species Diopatra oligopectinata Paxton, 1993
  54. Species Diopatra ornata Moore, 1911
  55. Species Diopatra papillata Fauchald, 1968
  56. Species Diopatra papillosa (Day, 1967)
  57. Species Diopatra pectiniconicum Steiner & Amaral, in Seixas, Steiner, Solé-Cava, Amaral & Paiva, 2020
  58. Species Diopatra rhizophorae Grube, 1856
  59. Species Diopatra rugosa (Kucheruk, 1979)
  60. Species Diopatra semperi Grube, 1878
  61. Species Diopatra splendidissima Kinberg, 1865
  62. Species Diopatra sugokai Izuka, 1907
  63. Species Diopatra tenuissima (Grube, 1868)
  64. Species Diopatra tridentata Hartman, 1944
  65. Species Diopatra tuberculantennata Budaeva & Fauchald, 2008
  66. Species Diopatra uncinifera Quatrefages, 1866
  67. Species Diopatra variabilis Southern, 1921
  68. Species Diopatra victoriae Steiner & Amaral, in Seixas, Steiner, Solé-Cava, Amaral & Paiva, 2020
  69. Species Diopatra viridis Kinberg, 1865
  70. Species Diopatra brevicirris Grube, 1856 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
  71. Species Diopatra bengalensis Hartman, 1976 accepted as Diopatra khargiana Wesenberg-Lund, 1949 (subjective synonym)
  72. Species Diopatra bilobata Imajima, 1967 accepted as Diopatra sugokai Izuka, 1907 (subjective synonym)
  73. Species Diopatra brasiliensis sensu Hansen, 1882 accepted as Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802) (not a new name by Hansen, referred to Diopatra cuprea by Augener (1934))
  74. Species Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874 accepted as Rhamphobrachium (Spinigerium) brevibrachiatum (Ehlers, 1874) (superseded original combination)
  75. Species Diopatra bulohensis Tan & Chou, 1996 accepted as Diopatra claparedii Grube, 1878 (subjective synonym)
  76. Species Diopatra californica Moore, 1904 accepted as Diopatra splendidissima Kinberg, 1865 (subjective synonym)
  77. Species Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1865 accepted as Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1866 (lapsus calami)
  78. Species Diopatra cryptornata Fauchald, Berke & Woodin, 2012 accepted as Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841 (subjective synonym)
  79. Species Diopatra dorsalis Ehlers, 1897 accepted as Kinbergonuphis dorsalis (Ehlers, 1897) (superseded original combination)
  80. Species Diopatra eschrichtii (Örsted, 1842) accepted as Nothria conchylega (Sars, 1835) (superseded recombination of subjective synonym)
  81. Species Diopatra fragilis Ehlers, 1869 accepted as Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802) (subjective synonym)
  82. Species Diopatra frontalis Grube, 1850 accepted as Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802)
  83. Species Diopatra gallica Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841 (subjective synonym)
  84. Species Diopatra heterodentata Hartmann-Schröder, 1965 accepted as Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
  85. Species Diopatra holobranchiata (Marenzeller, 1879) accepted as Onuphis holobranchiata Marenzeller, 1879 (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination)
  86. Species Diopatra iridicolor Costa in Claparède, 1868 accepted as Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841 (subjective synonym)
  87. Species Diopatra luzonensis Grube, 1878 accepted as Diopatra semperi Grube, 1878
  88. Species Diopatra magna Andrews, 1891 accepted as Americonuphis magna (Andrews, 1891) (superseded original combination)
  89. Species Diopatra paradoxa Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Fauchaldonuphis paradoxa (Quatrefages, 1866) (superseded original combination)
  90. Species Diopatra paucibranchis Ehlers, 1908 accepted as Paradiopatra ehlersi (McIntosh, 1885) (subjective synonym)
  91. Species Diopatra phyllocirra Schmarda, 1861 accepted as Heptaceras phyllocirra (Schmarda, 1861) (superseded original combination)
  92. Species Diopatra pourtalesii Ehlers, 1879 accepted as Anchinothria pourtalesii (Ehlers, 1879) (superseded original combination)
  93. Species Diopatra punctifera Ehlers, 1908 accepted as Diopatra cuprea punctifera Ehlers, 1908 (superseded original combination)
  94. Species Diopatra rhizoicola Hartmann-Schröder, 1960 accepted as Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1866
  95. Species Diopatra rhizoixola Hartmann-Schröder, 1960 accepted as Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1865 accepted as Diopatra chiliensis Quatrefages, 1866
  96. Species Diopatra simplex Grube, 1840 accepted as Onuphis eremita Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (subjective synonym)
  97. Species Diopatra socialis Ehlers, 1874 accepted as Paradiopatra quadricuspis (M. Sars in G.O. Sars, 1872) (subjective synonym)
  98. Species Diopatra spiribranchis Augener, 1906 accepted as Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802) (subjective synonym)
  99. Species Diopatra teres Ehlers, 1868 accepted as Australonuphis teres (Ehlers, 1868) (superseded original combination)
  100. Species Diopatra variegata Hansen, 1882 accepted as Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802) (subjective synonym)
  101. Subgenus Diopatra (Paradiopatra) Ehlers, 1887 represented as Paradiopatra Ehlers, 1887 (disused at subgenus rank)
    1. Species Diopatra (Paradiopatra) fragosa Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Paradiopatra fragosa (Ehlers, 1887) (superseded original combination)
    2. Species Diopatra (Paradiopatra) glutinatrix Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Anchinothria glutinatrix (Ehlers, 1887) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1833). [Part 2.] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> sér. 1, 28: 187-247., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6096524
page(s): 229, plate 10, figures 6-8 [details] 
Etymology Diopatra is a mythological naiad (female) of Mount Othrys, Central Greece. Wikipedia gives a fine short summary of her...  
Etymology Diopatra is a mythological naiad (female) of Mount Othrys, Central Greece. Wikipedia gives a fine short summary of her genealogy. "In Greek mythology, Diopatra (Ancient Greek: Διοπατρη Diopatrê) was a naiad of Mount Othrys and one of the Spercheides. She was the daughter of the river-god Spercheus and the naiad Deino. When the god Poseidon fell in love with Diopatre, the god transformed her sisters into poplars in order to ravish the girl. Diopatra's name means "divine family" which came from dion and patra." [details]

Distribution Maybe this genus does not occur in Antarctica; it has been reported (as Diopatra sp.) by Monro (1930) from South Georgia, but...  
Distribution Maybe this genus does not occur in Antarctica; it has been reported (as Diopatra sp.) by Monro (1930) from South Georgia, but hasn't been reported since. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129398 on 2026-06-26
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan, Gérard
2006-01-29 16:21:46Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-02-28 11:07:56Z
changed
Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2013-09-01 01:11:30Z
changed
Paxton, Hannelore
2020-06-15 10:13:27Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

original description Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1833). [Part 2.] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> sér. 1, 28: 187-247., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6096524
page(s): 229, plate 10, figures 6-8 [details] 

original description (of Epidiopatra Augener, 1918) Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280
page(s): 355 [details] 

taxonomy source Hektoen, Martin M.;Willassen, Endre; Budaeva, Nataliya. (2022). Phylogeny and Cryptic Diversity of Diopatra (Onuphidae, Annelida) in the East Atlantic. <em>Biology.</em> 11(2)(327):1-25., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/2/327
note: Molecularly identified new taxa, but they are not named [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [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] 

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., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details] 

source of synonymy Budaeva, N.; Fauchald, K. (2011). Phylogeny of the <i>Diopatra</i> generic complex with a revision of <i>Paradiopatra</i> Ehlres [sic], 1887 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 163(2), 319-436., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00701.x [details] 

ecology source Bharathidasan, Veeraiyan; Borisanova, Anastasia O.; Sarathy, Palanivel Partha; Murugesan, Perumal. (2022). New entoproct-polychaete association recorded in the Bay of Bengal, southeastern coast of India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5100(4): 482-500., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5100.4.2
note: Entoprocts on unidentified Diopatra species. List of Loxosomella species reported from Polychaetes [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

biology source Arias, Andrés; Woodin, Sarah A.; Paxton, Hannelore. (2023). An Introduction to Diopatra, the Amazing Ecosystem Engineering Polychaete. <em>Biology.</em> 12(7: 1027): 1-20., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/7/1027 [details] 
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Etymology Diopatra is a mythological naiad (female) of Mount Othrys, Central Greece. Wikipedia gives a fine short summary of her genealogy. "In Greek mythology, Diopatra (Ancient Greek: Διοπατρη Diopatrê) was a naiad of Mount Othrys and one of the Spercheides. She was the daughter of the river-god Spercheus and the naiad Deino. When the god Poseidon fell in love with Diopatre, the god transformed her sisters into poplars in order to ravish the girl. Diopatra's name means "divine family" which came from dion and patra." [details]

Grammatical gender Feminine. Named for a mythological naiad (female) of Mount Othrys, Central Greece. Almost all the numerous authors of Diopatra species adjectival names have had no difficulty determining the genus is feminine. There is the exception of "Diopatra pectiniconicum" [Steiner & Amaral, in Seixas, Steiner, Solé-Cava, Amaral & Paiva, 2020] which ends in a masculine noun (conus) given an inexplicable apparent neuter ending, and the construction must therefore be treated as an unvarying noun in apposition. [details]

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Distribution Maybe this genus does not occur in Antarctica; it has been reported (as Diopatra sp.) by Monro (1930) from South Georgia, but hasn't been reported since. [details]
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