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Polychaeta taxon detailsPalola Gray in Stair, 1847
129283 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129283)
accepted
Genus
Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847 (type by monotypy)
Eunice (Palola) · unaccepted
Lithognatha Stewart, 1881 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Palolo [auctt. misspelling] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (subsequent misspelling of...)
subsequent misspelling of 'Palola'
marine,
recent only
Stair, John B. (1847). An account of Palolo, a sea worm eaten in the Navigator Islands, with a description by J.E. Gray. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 15: 17-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862801
page(s): 17 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Palola Gray in Stair, 1847. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129283 on 2026-05-10
Date action by
original description
Stair, John B. (1847). An account of Palolo, a sea worm eaten in the Navigator Islands, with a description by J.E. Gray. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 15: 17-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862801
page(s): 17 [details] original description (of Lithognatha Stewart, 1881) Stewart, Charles 1881. On a supposed new boring annelid. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1: 717-719,plate9. [details] taxonomy source Fauchald, Kristian. (1992). Review of the types of <i>Palola</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 26(6): 1177-1225., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939200770681 [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) note: checklist listing [details] biology source Bachtiar, Imam; Bachtiar, Naila Taslimah. (2019). Predicting spawning date of nyale worms (Eunicidae, Polychaeta) in the southern coast of Lombok Island, Indonesia. <em>Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity.</em> 20(4): 971-977., available online at https://smujo.id/biodiv/article/view/3656 note: Nyale worms (a local name for mass swarming worms) are said to be mainly Palola species [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis [adapted from Fauchald, 1992, significant characters in bold] Eunicids with slender cylindrical bodies made up of many, short segments. Prostomium short, anteriorly truncate with short, cylindrical or tapering antennae. Antennae without articulations. Peristomium cylindrical, consisting of two rings, with a pair of peristomial cirri located dorsally on the second ring. Jaws with paired Mx-1,11, IV and V; unpaired Mx-III present on left side only as viewed from dorsal side. Small, paired Mx-Vl present in some species. Mandibles usually heavily calcified; always forming a deep scoop enclosing maxillae. Branchiae single flattened filaments present from mid-body (often from about setiger 100), can be missing on long stretches of body or absent. Notopodia represented by single, tapering or digitiform cirri. Ventral cirri basally inflated in median or median and posterior setigers. Inflated bases strictly ventral in position; forming paired ventral scutes where well developed. One setal bundle with geniculate or straight, limbate or capillary setae. The other setal fascicle with compound simple falcate, or bidentate falcigers. Compound spinigers, pseudocompound falcigers, subacicular hooks and pectinate setae absent [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Palola)
To Genbank To NMNH Extant Collection (Anja Schulze Collection information) To NMNH Extant Collection (Anja Schulze Collection information) To ITIS Unreviewed
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