Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Polychaeta incertae sedis > Family Spintheridae

Spinther Johnston, 1845

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Cryptonota Stimpson, 1853 generic synonym
Oniscosoma Sars, 1851 generic synonym
Sphinter [misspelling] orthographic variant

Children

Spinther arcticus (M. Sars, 1851)
Spinther citrinus (Stimpson, 1853)
Spinther oniscoides Johnson, 1845
Spinther vegae Augener, 1928

Literature

original description

Johnston, George 1845. Miscellanea Zoologica. Classe Annelides [sic]; Order Errantes; Family Nereides. [continued from v.15] Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 1, 16: 4-10.

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.

redescription

Graff, Ludwig von 1888. Die Annelidengattung Spinther. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 46: 1-66.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spinther Johnston, 1845. 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:129604

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2020-07-14 by Geoffrey Read

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