Petta (annelid)

Petta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Clade:	Sedentaria
Order:	Terebellida
Family:	Pectinariidae
Genus:	Petta ; Malmgren, 1866
Species
	8, see text

Last updated August 15, 2025

Pettais a genus in the polychaete family Pectinariidae .

Systematics

There are currently eight recognized species in the genus^[1]^[2]^[3]

Petta alissoni - Nogueira, Ribeiro, Carrerette & Hutchings, 2019
Petta assimilis - McIntosh, 1885
Petta brevis - Zhang & Hutchings, 2021
Petta investigatoris - Zhang, Hutchings & Kupriyanova, 2019
Petta pellucida - (Ehlers, 1887)
Petta pusilla - Malmgren, 1866
Petta tenuis - Caullery, 1944
Petta williamsonae - Zhang, Hutchings & Kupriyanova, 2019

References

↑ Read G, Fauchald K, eds. (2014). "Petta Malmgren, 1866". World Polychaeta Database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2014-04-30.
↑ Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat; Kupriyanova, Elena (10 June 2019). "A revision of the genus Petta Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida: Pectinariidae), with two new species from deep waters of southeastern Australia, and comments on phylogeny of the family". Zootaxa. 4614 (2): 303. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4614.2.3. PMID 31716379. S2CID 196656276.
↑ Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat (29 October 2021). "A new species of Petta (Annelida, Pectinariidae), with comments on Petta assimilis McIntosh, 1885". ZooKeys (1067): 83–92. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1067.72596 . PMC 8571246 . PMID 34759720 – via Pensoft.

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[1] Read G, Fauchald K, eds. (2014). "Petta Malmgren, 1866". World Polychaeta Database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2014-04-30.

[2] Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat; Kupriyanova, Elena (10 June 2019). "A revision of the genus Petta Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida: Pectinariidae), with two new species from deep waters of southeastern Australia, and comments on phylogeny of the family". Zootaxa. 4614 (2): 303. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4614.2.3. PMID 31716379. S2CID 196656276.

[3] Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat (29 October 2021). "A new species of Petta (Annelida, Pectinariidae), with comments on Petta assimilis McIntosh, 1885". ZooKeys (1067): 83–92. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1067.72596 . PMC 8571246 . PMID 34759720 – via Pensoft.

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