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Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867

129495 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129495)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Aphroditiformia (Suborder)
  8. Polynoidae (Family)
  9. Lepidastheniinae (Subfamily)
  10. Lepidasthenia (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Lepidastheniinae Pettibone, 1989
Lepidastheniinae Pettibone, 1989

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  1. Species Lepidasthenia alba (Treadwell, 1906)
  2. Species Lepidasthenia argus Hodgson, 1900
  3. Species Lepidasthenia australiensis (Augener, 1927)
  4. Species Lepidasthenia berkeleyae Pettibone, 1948
  5. Species Lepidasthenia brunnea Day, 1960
  6. Species Lepidasthenia brunnea (Knox, 1960) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, homonym to L brunnea Day, 1960. It is unclear which is senior)
  7. Species Lepidasthenia curta Chamberlin, 1919
  8. Species Lepidasthenia digueti Gravier, 1905
  9. Species Lepidasthenia elegans (Grube, 1840)
  10. Species Lepidasthenia esbelta Amaral & Nonato, 1982
  11. Species Lepidasthenia fallax (Grube, 1878)
  12. Species Lepidasthenia fauveli Rullier, 1964
  13. Species Lepidasthenia gigas (Johnson, 1897)
  14. Species Lepidasthenia grimaldii (Marenzeller, 1892)
  15. Species Lepidasthenia guadalcanalis Gibbs, 1971
  16. Species Lepidasthenia inquilinus (Treadwell, 1917)
  17. Species Lepidasthenia interrupta (Marenzeller, 1902)
  18. Species Lepidasthenia izukai Imajima & Hartman, 1964
  19. Species Lepidasthenia loboi Salazar-Vallejo, González & Salazar-Silva, 2015
  20. Species Lepidasthenia longicirrata Berkeley, 1923
  21. Species Lepidasthenia maculata Potts, 1910
  22. Species Lepidasthenia magnacornuta (Moore, 1903)
  23. Species Lepidasthenia medanensis Núñez, Brito & Ocaña, 1992
  24. Species Lepidasthenia michaelseni Augener, 1913
  25. Species Lepidasthenia microlepis Potts, 1910
  26. Species Lepidasthenia minikoensis Potts, 1910
  27. Species Lepidasthenia mossambica Day, 1962
  28. Species Lepidasthenia natans (Chamberlin, 1919)
  29. Species Lepidasthenia nuda (Quatrefages in Grube, 1870)
  30. Species Lepidasthenia ocellata (McIntosh, 1885)
  31. Species Lepidasthenia picta Treadwell, 1928
  32. Species Lepidasthenia platylepsis Knox, 1960
  33. Species Lepidasthenia retrodentata Monro, 1933
  34. Species Lepidasthenia rufa Treadwell, 1928
  35. Species Lepidasthenia scotti Buzhinskaya, 1982
  36. Species Lepidasthenia strelkovi Averincev & Uschakov, 1977
  37. Species Lepidasthenia stuardi Hartmann-Schröder, 1965
  38. Species Lepidasthenia stylolepis Willey in Lloyd, 1907
  39. Species Lepidasthenia terraereginae Monro, 1931
  40. Species Lepidasthenia varia Treadwell, 1917
  41. Species Lepidasthenia vesiculosa (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
  42. Species Lepidasthenia vietnamica Averincev & Uschakov, 1977
  43. Species Lepidasthenia virens (Blanchard in Gay, 1849)
  44. Species Lepidasthenia lucida (Treadwell, 1906) accepted as Lepidasthenia alba (Treadwell, 1906) (superseded recombination of subjective synonym)
  45. Species Lepidasthenia varius Treadwell, 1917 accepted as Lepidasthenia varia Treadwell, 1917 (incorrect original spelling, for compulsory gender agreement)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 15-16 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129495 on 2026-09-18
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129495 on 2026-09-18
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan, Gérard
2006-09-13 06:47:38Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
2007-01-23 08:53:40Z
checked
Barnich, Ruth
2007-02-01 10:44:13Z
changed
Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2023-04-06 13:32:37Z
changed
Gil, João

original description Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 15-16 [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] 

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] 

redescription Hanley, J. R.; Burke, M. (1991). Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Islands and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. <em>in: Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 8. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 151: 9-82. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 50-51 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; González, Norma Emilia; Salazar-Silva, Patricia. (2015). <em>Lepidasthenia loboi </em>sp. n. from Puerto Madryn, Argentina (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 546: 21-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.546.6175
note: key to genus [details] 
 
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