WoRMS taxon details
Branchiplicatus Pettibone, 1985
324931 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324931)
accepted
Genus
Branchiplicatus cupreus Pettibone, 1985 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
Etymology Branchi, from branchia (Greek) gills, plus plicatus, from plicatus (Latin) fold, referrig to the unusual type of folded...
Taxonomic remark Macellicephalinae incertae sedis (Hiley et al., 2024: 35)
Etymology Branchi, from branchia (Greek) gills, plus plicatus, from plicatus (Latin) fold, referrig to the unusual type of folded branchiae [details]
Taxonomic remark Macellicephalinae incertae sedis (Hiley et al., 2024: 35)
Taxonomic remark Macellicephalinae incertae sedis (Hiley et al., 2024: 35) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Branchiplicatus Pettibone, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324931 on 2026-07-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Pettibone, M. H. (1985). An additional new scale worm (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from the hydrothermal rift area off western Mexico at 21 N. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 98(1): 150-157.
page(s): 150-151 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 150-151 [details] Available for editors
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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]
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]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]
