Chaetopterus brevis

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Chaetopterus brevis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Family: Chaetopteridae
Genus: Chaetopterus
Species:
C. brevis
Binomial name
Chaetopterus brevis
Lespés, 1872

Chaetopterus brevis is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae. [1]

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Distribution

Chaetopterus brevis is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. [2]

Taxonomy

Chaetopterus brevis was considered a junior synonym of C. variopedatus by Fauvel (1927), [3] but it is now recognized as a distinct species. [4]

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS. "Chaetopterus brevis Lespés, 1872". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Moore, Jenna M. (2019). Phylogeny, Systematics, and Evolution of Functional Morphology in Chaetopteridae (Annelida) (PhD thesis). University of FLorida.
  3. ↑ Fauvel, P. (1927). "Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires" (PDF). Faune de France. 16. Paris: Paul Lechevalier: 1–494.
  4. ↑ Moore, Jenna M.; Nishi, Eijiroh; Rouse, Greg W. (2017). "Phylogenetic analyses of Chaetopteridae (Annelida)". Zoologica Scripta. 46 (5): 596–610. doi:10.1111/zsc.12238.
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