Linopherus is a genus of polychaetes belonging to the family Amphinomidae.[1][2]
| Linopherus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Family: | Amphinomidae |
| Genus: | Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866 |
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[2] They are common in shallow tropical and subtropical waters, but species have been described also from abyssal and polar areas.[3]
Species
editThe following species are recognised:[1][2]
- Linopherus abyssalis (Fauchald, 1972)
- Linopherus acarunculatus (Monro, 1937)
- Linopherus ambigua (Monro, 1933)
- Linopherus annulata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1965)
- Linopherus beibuwanensis Sun & Li, 2016[3]
- Linopherus brevis (Grube, 1878)
- Linopherus canariensis Langerhans, 1881
- Linopherus fauchaldi San Martín, 1986
- Linopherus hemuli (Fauchald, 1972)
- Linopherus hirsuta (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
- Linopherus incarunculata (Peters, 1854)
- Linopherus kristiani Salazar-Vallejo, 1987
- Linopherus microcephala (Fauvel, 1932)
- Linopherus minuta (Knox, 1960)
- Linopherus oculata (Treadwell, 1941)
- Linopherus oculifera (Augener, 1913)
- Linopherus oligobranchia (Wu, Shen & Chen, 1975)
- Linopherus paucibranchiata (Fauvel, 1932)
- Linopherus reducta (Kudenov & Blake, 1985)
- Linopherus spiralis (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
- Linopherus tripunctata (Kudenov, 1975)
References
edit- ^ a b Read G, Fauchald K (eds.). "Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866". World Polychaeta database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ a b c "Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ a b Sun, Yue & Li, Xinzheng (2016). "A new species of Linopherus (Annelida, Amphinomidae) from Beibu Gulf, South China Sea". ZooKeys (640): 37–43. Bibcode:2016ZooK..640...37S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.640.9619. PMC 5240364. PMID 28138284.