Lepidonotus

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Lepidonotus
Lepidonotus squamatus
Lepidonotus squamatus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Lepidonotus
Leach, 1816
Type species

Montagu, 1808


Lepidonotus is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus occurs globally and includes 80 species, usually found in shallow waters down to about 80 metres.[1]

Description[]

Body dorsoventrally flattened, short, with 26 segments and 12 pairs of elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, and 23. Prostomium with three antennae; lateral antennae continuous with prostomium, laterally to median antenna. Parapodia with elongate acicular lobes with both acicula penetrating epidermis. Notochaetae slender and densely serrated. Neurochaetae much more stout, with rows of spines distally and unidentate and/or bidentate tips (see Barnich & Fiege, 2003 for detailed diagnosis) .[2]

Species[]

The following species of Lepidonotus were accepted as valid as of June 2020:[1]

  • (Grube, 1878)
  • Haswell, 1883
  • Horst, 1915
  • Knox, 1960
  • Verrill, 1873
  • (Schmarda, 1861)
  • Ehlers, 1901
  • (Grube, 1878)
  • Seidler, 1924
  • (Schmarda, 1861)
  • Knox, 1951
  • (Uschakov, 1982)
  • Baird, 1865
  • (Quatrefages, 1866)
  • Quatrefages, 1865
  • Day, 1975
  • Moore, 1903
  • Kinberg, 1856
  • (Grube, 1869)
  • Augener, 1906
  • (Montagu, 1808)
  • (Grube, 1876)
  • Monro, 1928
  • (Grube, 1878)
  • Okuda in Okuda & Yamada, 1954
  • Day, 1934
  • Marenzeller, 1902
  • Knox, 1956
  • Ehlers, 1901
  • (Schmarda, 1861)
  • Imajima, 1997
  • (Peters, 1854)
  • Uschakov, 1982
  • Kinberg, 1856
  • Benham, 1915
  • (Grube, 1877)
  • Amoureux, 1974
  • Augener, 1918
  • (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)
  • Kinberg, 1855
  • Horst, 1917
  • (Ehlers, 1887)
  • Haswell, 1883
  • Seidler, 1923
  • Horst, 1915
  • Kinberg, 1856
  • Haswell, 1883
  • Day, 1951
  • Chamberlin, 1919
  • Baird, 1865
  • Ehlers, 1918
  • Hartman, 1939
  • Dyster in Johnston, 1865
  • Hanley & Burke, 1991
  • Wehe, 2006
  • Schmarda, 1861
  • Potts, 1910
  • Potts, 1910
  • Leach in Ross, 1819
  • Horst, 1917
  • (Izuka, 1912)
  • (Grube, 1856)
  • Hanley & Burke, 1991
  • Nolte, 1936
  • Johnston, 1865
  • (Stimpson, 1856)
  • Haswell, 1883
  • (Treadwell, 1906)
  • Hanley & Burke, 1991
  • Lepidonotus squamatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Baird, 1865
  • Monro, 1931
  • Verrill, 1873
  • (Gravier, 1902)
  • (Grube, 1856)
  • Haswell, 1883
  • Horst, 1917
  • Webster, 1879
  • Kinberg, 1856
  • Augener, 1922

References[]

  1. ^ a b Read, Geoffrey B.; Fauchald, Kristian (2020). "The World Polychaeta Database".
  2. ^ Barnich, R.; Fiege, D. (2003). "The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea". Abhandlugen der Senckebergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main. 559: 1–167.
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