Pholoe minuta
creator: Bellan, Gérard
creator: Barnich, Ruth
creator: Fauchald, Kristian
date: 2026-08-30
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: Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130603 on 2026-08-30
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2008-03-26T12:36:43Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780)
class: Polychaeta
family: Sigalionidae
genus: Pholoe
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Bobretzky, N. (1868). [Bristle worms (Annulata Chaetopoda) Bay of Sebastopol] [Original] Щетинконогие черви (Annulata Chaetopoda) Севастопольской бухты. Verhandlunger der Naturforschender Versammlung, St.Petersburg, Ser. Zoologie [also Russian journal title: Труды 1-го съезда русских естествоиспытателей в Санкт-Петербурге, Отдел зоологии (Proceedings of the 1st Congress of Russian Naturalists in St. Petersburg, Department of Zoology)]. 137-160, plates 1-2 [In Russian].
name published in: Castelnau, F. L. de Laporte de. (1842). L'Histoire naturelle des Annélides. p.1-46, pls.1-7, in P.H. Lucas ed., Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. 1. Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Myriopodes: Paris. 600 pp., 46 pls.
name published in: Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl.
name published in: Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. [book]. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement].
name published in: Johnston, George. (1827). [Part 2] Art. XXXVI Contributions to the British Fauna. [Continued from p.181.]. The Zoological Journal. 3: 321-336.
name published in: Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology. 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21.
name published in: Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1888). Les annélides polychètes des côtes de Dinard. Seconde partie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie et Paléontologie, Paris. Série 7, 5(2): 141-338, plates VI-XIII.
name published in year: 1868
name published in year: 1842
name published in year: 1780
name published in year: 1865
name published in year: 1827
name published in year: 1910
name published in year: 1888
order: Phyllodocida
parent name usage ID: 129439
phylum: Annelida
scientific name authorship: (Fabricius, 1780)
specific epithet: minuta
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted