Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Hesionidae > Subfamily Hesioninae > Tribe Psamathini > Genus Nereimyra

Nereimyra aphroditoides (O. Fabricius, 1780)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nereimyra*	Blainville, 1828	accepted genus name
*Castalia*	Savigny, 1822	later homonym
*Castalia*	Savigny, 1822	synonym

Species group names

*Nereimyra arctica*	(Malmgren, 1867)	synonym

Literature

original description	Fabricius, Otto 1780. [POLYCHAETA & ANNELIDA DATA. p.266-315; 374-384] Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens, Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum, capturamque singuli prout detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes: Hafniae [Copenhagen] et Lipsiae.
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: pp. 214-231
additional source	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta
additional source	Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628 pp.
redescription	Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W; Nygren, Arne (2012). A revision of Nereimyra (Psamathini, Hesionidae, Aciculata, Annelida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164(1): 36-51.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (28 nucleotides; 20 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
Barcode of Life (19 barcodes)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
GBIF

Citation

Read, G. (2014). Nereimyra aphroditoides (O. Fabricius, 1780). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130179