Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Polynoidae > Subfamily Polynoinae > Genus Harmothoe

Harmothoe rarispina (M. Sars, 1861)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Harmothoe*	Kinberg, 1856	accepted genus name
*Evarne*	Malmgren, 1865	junior homonym
*Harmothoe (Harmothoe)*	Kinberg, 1856	synonym
*Laenilla*	Malmgren, 1865	synonym
*Lagisca taurica*	(Czerniavsky, 1882)	synonym

Species group names

*Polynoe rarispina*	Sars, 1861	synonym

Literature

source of synonymy	Baird, William. (1865). Contributions towards a monograph of the species of Annelides belonging to the Aphroditacea, containing a list of the known species, and a description of some new species contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 8(31-32): 172-202.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe rarispina (M. Sars, 1861). 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:130779