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

Boccardia proboscidea Hartman, 1940

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Boccardia*	Carazzi, 1893	accepted genus name
*Polydora (Boccardia)*	Carazzi, 1893	synonym

Literature

original description	Hartman, Olga. (1940). Boccardia proboscidea, a new species of spionid worm from California. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 30(9): 382-387.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Blake, James A.; Woodwick, Keith H. (1971). A review of the genus Boccardia Carazzi (Polychaeta Spionidae) with description of two new species. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 70(1): 31-42.
additional source	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Wilson, R.S.; Hutchings, P.A. and Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2003. List of Polychaete species introduced to Australia. Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne
additional source	Kerckhof, F.; Faasse, M. A. (2014). Boccardia proboscidea and Boccardiella hamata (Polychaeta: Spionidae: Polydorinae), introduced mud worms new for the North Sea and Europe, respectively. Marine Biodiversity Records. 7: e76 (9 pages).
status source	Radashevsky, Vasily, I. ; Harris, Leslie, H. 2010. Case 3520 Boccardia proboscidea Hartman, 1940 (Annelida, SPIONIDAE): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67(3): 203-210.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Boccardia proboscidea Hartman, 1940. 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:327249