Linopherus

Linopherus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Order:	Amphinomida
Family:	Amphinomidae
Genus:	Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866

Linopherus is a genus of polychaetes belonging to the family Amphinomidae. ^{[1] [2]}

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. ^[2] They are common in shallow tropical and subtropical waters, but species have been described also from abyssal and polar areas. ^[3]

Species

The following species are recognised: ^{[1] [2]}

• Linopherus abyssalis (Fauchald, 1972)
• Linopherus acarunculatus (Monro, 1937)
• Linopherus ambigua (Monro, 1933)
• Linopherus annulata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1965)
• Linopherus beibuwanensis Sun & Li, 2016 ^[3]
• Linopherus brevis (Grube, 1878)
• Linopherus canariensis Langerhans, 1881
• Linopherus fauchaldi San Martín, 1986
• Linopherus hemuli (Fauchald, 1972)
• Linopherus hirsuta (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
• Linopherus incarunculata (Peters, 1854)
• Linopherus kristiani Salazar-Vallejo, 1987
• Linopherus microcephala (Fauvel, 1932)
• Linopherus minuta (Knox, 1960)
• Linopherus oculata (Treadwell, 1941)
• Linopherus oculifera (Augener, 1913)
• Linopherus oligobranchia (Wu, Shen & Chen, 1975)
• Linopherus paucibranchiata (Fauvel, 1932)
• Linopherus reducta (Kudenov & Blake, 1985)
• Linopherus spiralis (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
• Linopherus tripunctata (Kudenov, 1975)

References

1. Read G, Fauchald K (eds.). "Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866". World Polychaeta Database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 15 April 2023.
2. "Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 8 October 2021.
3. Sun, Yue & Li, Xinzheng (2016). "A new species of Linopherus (Annelida, Amphinomidae) from Beibu Gulf, South China Sea". ZooKeys (640): 37–43. Bibcode:2016ZooK..640...37S. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.640.9619 . PMC   5240364 . PMID   28138284.