original description
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 386 [details]
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(of Lagisca oculata Hartman, 1967) Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 29-30, plate 6 figs. A-E [details] Available for editors [request]
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(of Andresia Prenant, 1924) Prenant, Auguste. (1924). <i>Andresia ampullifera</i> nov. g., nov. sp. de la sous-famille des polynoïniens. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 49(1): 19-29., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54459014/f50.item
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(of Paranychia Czerniavsky, 1882) Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1882). Materialia ad zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III Vermes. [third part]. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody).</em> 57(1): 146-198., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34267696 [details]
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(of Evarne Malmgren, 1865) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part one of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(1): 51-110, plates VIII-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339323
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original description
(of Laenilla Malmgren, 1865) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part one of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(1): 51-110, plates VIII-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339323
page(s): 72 [details]
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(of Tricosmochaeta Morgera, 1918) Morgera, A. 1918. Di un nuovo polinoide del Golfo di Napoli. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 2: 1-14.
page(s): 9-10 [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]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [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
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source
Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2000). Revision of the Mediterranean species of <i>Harmothoe</i> Kinberg, 1856 and <i>Lagisca</i> Malmgren, 1865 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Polynoinae) with descriptions of a new genus and a new species. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 34(10): 1889-1938., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930050144783 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Barnich, R.; Fiege, D.; Micaletto, G.; Gambi, M. C. (2006). Redescription of Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) and related species from Subantarctic and Antarctic waters, with the erection of a new genus. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 40(1-2): 33-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930500445044 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Barnich, Ruth; Fiege, Dieter. (2009). Revision of the genus <i>Harmothoe</i> Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) in the Northeast Atlantic. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2104(1): 1-76., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2104.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis [Fide Fiege & Barnich, 2009:152] Body dorsoventrally flattened, short, with up to about 50 segments; dorsum more or less covered by elytra or short posterior region uncovered. Fifteen pairs of elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29, and 32. Prostomium with distinct cephalic peaks and three antennae; lateral antennae inserted ventrally to median antenna. Position of anterior pair of eyes variable, posterior pair dorsal near hind margin. Parapodia with elongate acicular lobes with both acicula penetrating epidermis; neuropodia with a supra-acicular process. Notochaetae stout with distinct rows of spines and blunt tip. Neurochaetae more numerous, usually more slender, with distinct rows of spines distally and tips either all bidentate with a subdistal secondary tooth or some bi- and some unidentate. [details]
Etymology Unknown, but Harmothoe is a Greek feminine name, in mythology mentioned as either 1) an amazon, 2) wife of Pandareus [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Spelling Spelled Harmathoe in Cattrijsse & Vincx (2001). [details]
Synonymy Synonym of Harmothoe Antinoella Malmgren, 1865. [details]
Type species Type species H. spinosa Kinberg 1855 in Fauchald, 1977 <246>. [details]