WoRMS taxon details
Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977
129418 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129418)
accepted
Genus
Haploscoloplos bifurcatus Hartman, 1957 accepted as Leitoscoloplos bifurcatus (Hartman, 1957) (type by original designation)
- Species Leitoscoloplos abranchiatus (Hartman, 1967)
- Species Leitoscoloplos acutus (Verrill, 1873)
- Species Leitoscoloplos bajacaliforniensis Léon-González & Rodríguez, 1996
- Species Leitoscoloplos bifurcatus (Hartman, 1957)
- Species Leitoscoloplos bilobatus Mackie, 1987
- Species Leitoscoloplos chilensis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1965)
- Species Leitoscoloplos cliffordi Blake, 2020
- Species Leitoscoloplos drakei (Hartman, 1967)
- Species Leitoscoloplos eltaninae Blake, 2017
- Species Leitoscoloplos foliosus (Hartman, 1951)
- Species Leitoscoloplos fragilis (Verrill, 1873)
- Species Leitoscoloplos geminus Mackie, 1987
- Species Leitoscoloplos gordaensis Blake, 2020
- Species Leitoscoloplos kerguelensis (McIntosh, 1885)
- Species Leitoscoloplos latibranchus Day, 1977
- Species Leitoscoloplos lunulus Blake, 2020
- Species Leitoscoloplos mackiei Eibye-Jacobsen, 2002
- Species Leitoscoloplos mammosus Mackie, 1987
- Species Leitoscoloplos mawsoni (Benham, 1921)
- Species Leitoscoloplos mediterranea Çinar, Dagli & Erdogan-Dereli, 2022
- Species Leitoscoloplos mexicanus (Fauchald, 1972)
- Species Leitoscoloplos multipapillatus Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2014
- Species Leitoscoloplos nasus Blake, 2017
- Species Leitoscoloplos obovatus Mackie, 1987
- Species Leitoscoloplos olei Neal & Paterson in Neal et al., 2020
- Species Leitoscoloplos pachybranchiatus Blake & Hilbig, 1990
- Species Leitoscoloplos panamensis (Monro, 1933)
- Species Leitoscoloplos papillatus Eibye-Jacobsen, 2002
- Species Leitoscoloplos phyllobranchus Blake, 2017
- Species Leitoscoloplos plataensis Blake, 2017
- Species Leitoscoloplos pugettensis (Pettibone, 1957)
- Species Leitoscoloplos pustulus Blake, 2021
- Species Leitoscoloplos rankini Blake, 2017
- Species Leitoscoloplos robustus (Verrill, 1873)
- Species Leitoscoloplos sahlingi Blake, 2020
- Species Leitoscoloplos simplex Blake, 2017
- Species Leitoscoloplos williamsae Blake, 2020
- Species Leitoscoloplos banzareae Mackie, 1987 accepted as Leitoscoloplos kerguelensis (McIntosh, 1885) (subjective synonym)
- Species Leitoscoloplos normalis Day, 1977 accepted as Scoloplos normalis (Day, 1977) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
Day, John H. (1977). A review of the Australian and New Zealand Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). 217-246. <i>In</i>: Reish, Donald J.; Fauchald, Kristian (Eds.). Essays on polychaetous annelids in memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. The Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California.
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Etymology The name of the genus Leitoscoloplos is derived from the Greek words leitos, meaning 'simple', and scoloplos, meaning 'a...
Etymology Scoloplos is masculine and thus Leitoscoloplos is also masculine, as authors have treated it.
Etymology The name of the genus Leitoscoloplos is derived from the Greek words leitos, meaning 'simple', and scoloplos, meaning 'a thorn or pointed bristle', and refers to the presence of only crenulate capillaries on the thoracic neuropodia. [details]
Etymology Scoloplos is masculine and thus Leitoscoloplos is also masculine, as authors have treated it.
Etymology Scoloplos is masculine and thus Leitoscoloplos is also masculine, as authors have treated it. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129418 on 2025-07-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, John H. (1977). A review of the Australian and New Zealand Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). 217-246. <i>In</i>: Reish, Donald J.; Fauchald, Kristian (Eds.). Essays on polychaetous annelids in memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. The Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California.
page(s): 218 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 218 [details] Available for editors
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Mackie, Andrew S. Y. 1987. A review of species currently assigned to the genus Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae), with descriptions of species newly referred to Scoloplos Blainville, 1828. Sarsia, 72: 1-28. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 2-3 [details]
page(s): 2-3 [details]
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additional source
Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny. (2002). The Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the BIOSHELF Project, Andaman Sea, Thailand. <em>Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication.</em> 24: 77-99.
page(s): 79; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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) [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 79; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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) [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Orbiniidae with a conical prostomium, one achaetous buccal segment (peristomium), thoracic neurochaetae all crenulate capillaries as are thoracic notochaetae, branchiae from chaetiger 8 or later, 1-3 thoracic neuropodial postchaetal processes, 0-2 thoracic subpodal papillae, 0-4 abdominal subpodal papillae, stomach papillae rare, interramal cirri present or absent, forked chaetae present or absent, 0-2 anal cirri (Mackie, 1987: 2). Eibye-Jacobsen (2002: 79) emended the genus to allow the presence of up to six podal paillae and seven subpodal papillae. [details]
Etymology The name of the genus Leitoscoloplos is derived from the Greek words leitos, meaning 'simple', and scoloplos, meaning 'a thorn or pointed bristle', and refers to the presence of only crenulate capillaries on the thoracic neuropodia. [details]
Etymology Scoloplos is masculine and thus Leitoscoloplos is also masculine, as authors have treated it. [details]
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
