Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Spionida > Suborder Spioniformia > Family Spionidae > Genus Laonice

Laonice cirrata (M. Sars, 1851)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Laonice*	Malmgren, 1867	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Nerine cirrata*	M. Sars, 1851	synonym

Literature

additional source	Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Sikorski, Andrey V. (2011). Review of Laonice (Spionidae, Annelida) with remarks on several species and a description of a new species from South Africa. Italian Journal of Zoology. 78(S1): 201-214.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Radashevsky, V.I.; Sikorski, A.V.; Pankova, V.V.; Choi, J.-W.; Neretina, T.V.; Prudkovsky, A.A.; Pavlova, L.V.; Tzetlin, A.B. (2023). Molecular identity of Laonice cirrata (Sars, 1851) (Annelida, Spionidae) and description of a new Laonice species from the Northwest Pacific. Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 49(Suppl. 1): 29-46.
additional source	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	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp.
additional source	Sikorsky, A. V. 2002. On distinguishing the morphologically close species, Laonice cirrata and L. bahusiensis (Polychaeta, Spionidae). Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 81(4): 406-419.
additional source	Sikorski, Andrey V. (2003). Laonice (Polychaeta, Spionidae) in the Arctic and the North Atlantic. Sarsia. 88: 316-345.
additional source	Hannerz, Lennart. (1956). Larval development of the polychaete families Spionidae Sars, Disomidae Mesnil, and Poecilochaetidae n. fam. in the Gullmar Fjord (Sweden). Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala. 31: 1-204.
additional source	Hartman, O. (1941). Some contributions to the biology and life history of Spionidae from California. With keys to species and genera and descriptions of two new forms. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. 7(4): 289-323.
additional source	Söderström, Adolf. (1920). Studien über die Polychätenfamilie Spionidae. [published thesis]. Uppsala University, printed Almquist and Wicksells, 286 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Mesnil, F. (1896). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. I. Les Spionidiens des côtes de la Manche. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique. 29: 110-287, plates VII-XV.
source of synonymy	Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 36(129): 1-183.
source of synonymy	Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts].
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.
redescription	Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Laonice cirrata (M. Sars, 1851). 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:131128