WoRMS taxon details
Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876
152357 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152357)
accepted
Species
Harmothoe castanea (McIntosh, 1876) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)
Malmgreniella castanea (McIntosh, 1876) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
McIntosh, William Carmichael [as M'Intosh]. (1876). On British Annelida. Part I. Euphrosynidae, Amphinomidae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae, and Sigalionidae. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 9(7): 371-394, plates LXVII-LXX., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28910942
page(s): 376 [details]
page(s): 376 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152357 on 2026-01-10
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Nomenclature
original description
McIntosh, William Carmichael [as M'Intosh]. (1876). On British Annelida. Part I. Euphrosynidae, Amphinomidae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae, and Sigalionidae. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 9(7): 371-394, plates LXVII-LXX., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28910942
page(s): 376 [details]
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 376 [details]
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy
Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834. [details]
source of synonymy Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. <em>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.</em> 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 538: 1-92., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5682 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Jourde, Jérôme.; Sampaio, Leandro; Barnich, Ruth; Bonifácio, Paulo; Labrune, Céline; Quintino, Victor; Sauriau, Pierre-Guy. (2015). Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov., a new scale worm species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from southern Europe with a key to European Malmgrenia species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95(5): 947-952., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315414001878
page(s): 948; note: usage returning M. castanea to Malmgrenia [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. <em>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.</em> 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 538: 1-92., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5682 [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Jourde, Jérôme.; Sampaio, Leandro; Barnich, Ruth; Bonifácio, Paulo; Labrune, Céline; Quintino, Victor; Sauriau, Pierre-Guy. (2015). Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov., a new scale worm species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from southern Europe with a key to European Malmgrenia species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95(5): 947-952., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315414001878
page(s): 948; note: usage returning M. castanea to Malmgrenia [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
context source (BeRMS 2020)
Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of dredge disposal monitoring in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype SMNH 54714, geounit Scotland [details]
Unreviewed
Synonymy Malmgrenia castanea is the correct combination, not Malmgreniella castanea [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Harmothoe castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To NHMUK collection (Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876; syntype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3535727)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Harmothoe castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To PESI (from synonym Malmgreniella castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Malmgreniella castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Harmothoe castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To NHMUK collection (Malmgrenia castanea McIntosh, 1876; syntype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3535727)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Harmothoe castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To PESI (from synonym Malmgreniella castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Malmgreniella castanea (McIntosh, 1876))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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