WoRMS taxon details
Acoetes Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832
236735 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236735)
accepted
Genus
Acoetes pleei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832 (type by monotypy)
Eupompe Kinberg, 1856 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Acoetes bataensis Pettibone, 1989
- Species Acoetes bicolor (Grube, 1877)
- Species Acoetes congoensis Pettibone, 1989
- Species Acoetes flagelliformis (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
- Species Acoetes grubei (Kinberg, 1856)
- Species Acoetes ivisoni Ogawa, Rizzo & Lavrado, 2026
- Species Acoetes jogasimae (Izuka, 1912)
- Species Acoetes melanonota (Grube, 1876)
- Species Acoetes mirandae Ogawa, Rizzo & Lavrado, 2026
- Species Acoetes mohammadi Pettibone, 1989
- Species Acoetes mortenseni (Monro, 1928)
- Species Acoetes pacifica (Treadwell, 1914)
- Species Acoetes pettii Ogawa, Rizzo & Lavrado, 2026
- Species Acoetes pleei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832
- Species Acoetes southcarolinensis Pettibone, 1989
- Species Acoetes lupina Stimpson, 1856 accepted as Polyodontes lupinus (Stimpson, 1856) (superseded original combination)
- Species Acoetes magnifica Treadwell, 1929 accepted as Acoetes pleei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1832). [Part 1] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> Sér. 1, 27: 337-447., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6062037
page(s): 435-437, pl 10: figures 7-14 [details]
page(s): 435-437, pl 10: figures 7-14 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Acoetes Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236735 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1832). [Part 1] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> Sér. 1, 27: 337-447., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6062037
page(s): 435-437, pl 10: figures 7-14 [details]
original description (of Eupompe Kinberg, 1856) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 387 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
page(s): 435-437, pl 10: figures 7-14 [details]
original description (of Eupompe Kinberg, 1856) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 387 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Ogawa, Namy; Rizzo, Alexandra E.; Lavrado, Helena Passeri. (2026). Three new species of Acoetes (Aphroditiformia: Acoetidae) and one new species of Euarche (Aphroditiformia: Acoetidae): first Acoetes described in over three decades. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5799(1): 79-105., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5799.1.4
page(s): 82; note: key to species [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 82; note: key to species [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
