WoRMS taxon details
Branchipolynoe Pettibone, 1984
182930 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182930)
accepted
Genus
Branchipolynoe symmytilida Pettibone, 1984 (type by original designation)
Branchiopolynoe [auctt.] · unaccepted (misspelling for Branchipolynoe)
- Species Branchipolynoe eliseae Lindgren, Hatch, Hourdez, Seid & Rouse, 2019
- Species Branchipolynoe halliseyae Lindgren, Hatch, Hourdez, Seid & Rouse, 2019
- Species Branchipolynoe japonicus (Miura & Hashimoto, 1991)
- Species Branchipolynoe kajsae Lindgren, Hatch, Hourdez, Seid & Rouse, 2019
- Species Branchipolynoe longqiensis Zhou, Zhang, Lu & Wang, 2017
- Species Branchipolynoe marianus (Pettibone, 1989)
- Species Branchipolynoe meridae Lindgren, Hatch, Hourdez, Seid & Rouse, 2019
- Species Branchipolynoe nanhaiensis (Wu, Zhen, Kou & Xu, 2023)
- Species Branchipolynoe nikkoensis (Jimi, Chen & Fujiwara, 2022)
- Species Branchipolynoe onnuriensis Kim, Choi, Eyun, Kim & Yu, 2022
- Species Branchipolynoe pettiboneae Miura & Hashimoto, 1991
- Species Branchipolynoe seepensis Pettibone, 1986
- Species Branchipolynoe segonzaci (Miura & Desbruyères, 1995)
- Species Branchipolynoe symmytilida Pettibone, 1984
- Species Branchipolynoe tjiasmantoi Lindgren, Hatch, Hourdez, Seid & Rouse, 2019
- Species Branchipolynoe trifurcus (Miura & Desbruyères, 1995)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pettibone, Marian H. 1984. A new scale-worm commensal with deep-sea mussels on the Galapagos hydrothermal vent (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97(1): 226-239.
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Etymology Author: "Branchia, gills, plus polynoe, polynoid worm, (from genus Polynoe); referring to the characteristic gills on the...
Etymology Author: "Branchia, gills, plus polynoe, polynoid worm, (from genus Polynoe); referring to the characteristic gills on the polynoid worm" [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Branchipolynoe Pettibone, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182930 on 2025-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Pettibone, Marian H. 1984. A new scale-worm commensal with deep-sea mussels on the Galapagos hydrothermal vent (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97(1): 226-239.
page(s): 227 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 227 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329
page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Hiley, A. S.; Mongiardino Koch, N.; Rouse, G. W. (2024). Phylogenetics of Lepidonotopodini (Macellicephalinae, Polynoidae, Annelida) and Comparative Mitogenomics of Shallow-Water vs. Deep-Sea Scaleworms (Aphroditiformia). <em>Biology.</em> 13(12): 979., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/12/979
page(s): 20; note: emended diagnosis [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Hatch, A. S.; Liew, H.; Hourdez, S.; Rouse, G. W. (2020). Hungry scale worms: Phylogenetics of Peinaleopolynoe (Polynoidae, Annelida), with four new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 932: 27-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.48532
page(s): 44-46; note: assignment to Lepidonotopodinae [details]
page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors
[request]taxonomy source Hiley, A. S.; Mongiardino Koch, N.; Rouse, G. W. (2024). Phylogenetics of Lepidonotopodini (Macellicephalinae, Polynoidae, Annelida) and Comparative Mitogenomics of Shallow-Water vs. Deep-Sea Scaleworms (Aphroditiformia). <em>Biology.</em> 13(12): 979., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/12/979
page(s): 20; note: emended diagnosis [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Hatch, A. S.; Liew, H.; Hourdez, S.; Rouse, G. W. (2020). Hungry scale worms: Phylogenetics of Peinaleopolynoe (Polynoidae, Annelida), with four new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 932: 27-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.48532
page(s): 44-46; note: assignment to Lepidonotopodinae [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Desbruyères, D., M. Segonzac & M. Bright (eds.). (2006). Handbook of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Second Edition Denisia 18:1-544. (Copepods 316-355) (Polychaeta 183-296), available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/datenbanken/digilit/?litnr=23702 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
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. <em>[Book chapter].</em> 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. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Body short, flattened, spindle-shaped, segments 21, first achaetous. Elytra and elytrophores, 10 pairs on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Dorsal cirri on non-elytra-bearing segments with short cirrophores and short styles. Dorsal tubercles on cirrigerous segments indistinct. Branchiae well developed, arborescent, on all parapodia from segment 2. Prostomium bilobed, subtriangular anterior lobes bearing minute frontal filaments; with short median antenna and pair of short palps; without lateral antennae and eyes. First or tentacular segment fused to prostomium, visible dorsally as short ring, achaetous; stout tentaculophores lateral to prostomium with 2 pairs of short tentacular cirri; without facial tubercle. Second or buccal segment with first pair of elytra and short ventral buccal cirri. Parapodia subbiramous. Notopodia small, with few short acicular notosetae. Neuropodia short, truncate, without projecting acicular lobes; with very numerous neurosetae including upper stout, slightly hooked ones separated by partition from very numerous slender ones. Ventral cirri short. Pygidium with pair of short anal cirri. Pharynx with 5 pairs of papillae and 2 pairs of jaws. Enlarged ventral papillae on segments 11 and 12. Commensal with mussels on deep-sea thermal vents [details]Etymology Author: "Branchia, gills, plus polynoe, polynoid worm, (from genus Polynoe); referring to the characteristic gills on the polynoid worm" [details]
Grammatical gender feminine [details]
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
