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

Paradiopatra Ehlers, 1887

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Paradiopatra bihanica (Intes & Le Loeuff, 1975)
Paradiopatra calliopae Arvantidis & Koukouras, 1997
Paradiopatra ehlersi (McIntosh, 1885)
Paradiopatra fiordica (Fauchald, 1974)
Paradiopatra hartmanae (Kirkegaard, 1980)
Paradiopatra hispanica (Amoureux, 1972)
Paradiopatra lepta (Chamberlin, 1919)
Paradiopatra quadricuspis (M. Sars in G.O. Sars, 1872)

Literature

original description	Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 15: vi & 335 pp.
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: 214-231.
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.
additional source	Budaeva, N.; Fauchald, K. (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.
identification resource	Paxton, Hannelore; Budaeva, Nataliya. 2013. Paradiopatra (Annelida: Onuphidae) from eastern Australian waters, with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3686(2): 140–164.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Paradiopatra Ehlers, 1887. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129405