Mesochaetopterus
creator: Bellan, Gérard
creator: Martinez, Olga
creator: Fauchald, Kristian
creator: Read, Geoffrey
date: 2026-08-29
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129230 on 2026-08-29
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2018-06-24T07:13:02Z
replaces: 326013
replaces: 596346
replaces: 325159
rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914
class: Polychaeta
family: Chaetopteridae
genus: Mesochaetopterus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Potts, Frank A. (1914). Polychaeta from the N.E. Pacific: The Chaetopteridae. With an account of the phenomenon of asexual reproduction in Phyllochaetopterus and the description of two new species of Chaetopteridae from the Atlantic. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 84(4): 955-994, plates I-VI.
name published in: Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 48: 1-514.
name published in: Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom].
name published in: Rullier, François. (1976). Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce de Chaetopteridae Sasekumaria selangora (Annélides Polychètes) de Malaisie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 101(2): 199-202.
name published in year: 1914
name published in year: 1919
name published in year: 1870
name published in year: 1976
parent name usage ID: 918
phylum: Annelida
scientific name authorship: Potts, 1914
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted